With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

In the cloud era, most enterprises are rightfully wary of vendor lock-in. Find out how HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) enables enterprises with greater choice and flexibility in the cloud platforms and technologies they use.

Example of increased heterogeneous support that HP CSA offers includes KVM, VMware and Microsoft hypervisors, in addition to Amazon EC2 public cloud resource and HP Public Cloud Services.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

On May 13 2013, we announced the release of HP Cloud Service Automation 3.2 (CSA). As described in an earlier post, the latest version of HP CSA has three big areas of improvement. Over the next few weeks, we will dive into each area, and examine how these improvements help cloud administrators better manage their ever-changing environment of application and software services. In this article, we will discuss the use of Intelligent Resource Utilization with HP CSA. 

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

In an earlier article, we spoke of getting control of IT’s complexity through the use of HP Cloud Service Automation 3.2 (CSA). Now you can learn how enterprise IT will now be able to easily provision and manage a full range of hybrid cloud services quickly with the use of CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite.

Next, come and see CloudSystem Enterprise live in action at HP Discover in Vegas. Hear from actual customers (e.g. McKesson Corp., Lloyd Banking Group, Verizon) who have taken the leap to CloudSystem Enterprise. From their experiences, appreciate why CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite was designed to help enterprise IT get started as an enterprise-grade cloud service broker.

IT organizations are increasingly shifting their infrastructure to cloud-based service delivery models—whether they are private, public or hybrid. Many are seeking ways to integrate existing, trusted enterprise IT management platforms into these cloud environments.

Keep reading to find out how to make the most of these cloud environments. Then come join us at HP Discover in Vegas, to see some of these cloud integrations live in action.

I have been talking to you for the past few weeks about the new HP Cloud Service Automation lifecycle Management for application infrastructure services. Now you have the opportunity to hear about our services from those that know them best—our customers!

In the breakout sessions at HP Discover (session BB2981), you can hear how Verizon IT (as a result of the partnership built on HP CloudSystem Enterprise and HP Cloud Service Automation) is now realizing a  reduction in deployment time, increased resource utilization, avoidance of failures due to human error and increased compliance with policies.

What else can you discover about these new solutions in Las Vegas? Well, I guess you will have to keep reading to find out !

We recently announced a new suite of HP Software Automation, Orchestration and Cloud Management Software. Now you can automate end-end platform and application delivery. You can also Build, orchestrate and broker cloud services. Now you can learn more about them at HP Discover in Vegas.

We will be offering product breakout tracks by subject matter experts and customer-led solution discussions There will also be round tables and demo theatre sessions filled with cloud-related information.  Keep reading to get a sneak peak at what is in store for you at HP Discover.

Imagine being able to automate your end-to-end platform and application delivery. Or, have the ability to build, orchestrate and broker cloud services. Now you will have the opportunity to see your dreams become reality with  HP Software’s new set of Automation, Orchestration and Cloud Management solutions in action at HP Discover in Vegas.

This set of solutions was designed to support heterogeneity out of the box and attain new levels of IT efficiencies. These solutions offer enterprises:

• Agility in delivering application services and
• Scale by automating end-to-end application delivery as well as 
• Building, orchestrating and brokering hybrid cloud services.

They are integrated, comprehensive offerings that deliver on choice, confidence and consistency for the enterprise-grade cloud service broker.

Read on to find out what is in store for you at HP Discover, including how you can win the new HP Slate7.

Join us !

Hear more about the latest extensions made to our current portfolio. Be one of the first to learn how to leverage the cloud, to dramatically improve the speed of delivery to business requests. Increase speed of innovation to your end user, and enable the development of systems that your business wants to use. Meet your obligations today to streamline your cost structure.

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) has made designing cloud services from scratch a simple and straightforward process; but what happens if your enterprise is running on multiple systems? How can you export and import service designs, so that you can reuse and customize existing designs between different instances? How do we ensure that service designs provided do not remain stagnant over time?

Read on to find out how HP CSA has helped raise the bar in the way service designs are created and used. We will also uncover how service designs with HP CSA continue to grow in value over time.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

Why create something from scratch when you can work from a plan that already works? HP Cloud Service Automation features many templates—and more are released monthly—for mounting new types of resource providers of cloud environments. Keep reading to learn how to use them to simplify setup and provisioning of your cloud service.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

Inside most large enterprises, IT organizations are responsible for administering multiple types of cloud environments. In some cases the cloud environments are from the same provider, but often they come from multiple sources—keeping track of them all can feel like a pair of shackles.

Luckily, HP Cloud Service Automation organizes all of these resource providers into one system. Now you can  manage and bind them to specific service designs, which can then be presented as part of a service catalog for business users.

Keep reading to find out how you can free your IT staff from the drudgery of maintain Cloud services.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

Accelerate your deployment as a cloud service broker with CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Service. It will  be made available starting  April 1, 2013. 

It was designed to set up a solid foundation for customers of HP CloudSystem Matrix. Continue reading to learn how CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Service ensures that your process of delivering cloud services is done right. This is accomplished by starting from the very first step. 

With written contribution from Andrew Wahl and Sathya Sastry

Provisioning cloud services to business users needs to be an efficient, yet still customizable process. The faster that administrators are able to respond to requests—or better yet, proactively satisfy their businesses specific needs for cloud computing resources—the more likely that lines of business will not attempt to work outside of approved Corporate IT policies and engage in “Shadow IT”.

Continue reading to learn how administrators use HP Cloud Service Automation to design cloud services with integrated workflows, and provision cloud services for a wide range of private, managed and public cloud resources.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of blog posts that will look at how cloud administrators can use HP Cloud Service Automation. Follow the series on Grounded In the Cloud.

You were just called into a staff meeting in the morning, where you were told by your CIO that your capital budget has been decidedly halved. Seated in your windowless office cubicle of your data centre, you look at the rows of networking equipment overflowing from their rack space and wonder how you will manage this IT sprawl.

You now have half the budget and yet your data increases daily. Keep reading to see if there is a light at the end of this tunnel.

The ever-increasing pace of technological innovation is disrupting the IT industry today. But, it also brings many opportunities for advances in the IT department. Every day, we see new and innovative solutions emerge in the marketplace. And while these solutions enable customers to be more productive and efficient, there may also be hidden costs associated –unintended results and undesired consequences.

For example, when onboarding new applications and solutions, customers realize that they need to re-tool their environment.  Some times this means retiring an existing tool that the business is familiar with, and is still serving them well. These are added costs and a resistance to change that IT can do without.

Continue reading to learn how HP Continuous Delivery Automation protects your organization from such fail points when onboarding new applications. 

Unlock your potential as a broker of cloud services, for both IT and line of business users. Now you can open doors with the new HP CloudSystem Enterprise Starter Suite, available today 01st March 2013. Leverage the benefits of CloudSystem Matrix, integrated with HP Cloud Service Automation. 

Learn how as a broker of Cloud Services, you can deploy a full range of services models (PaaS/SaaS and IaaS) delivered to IT as well as the line of business teams. Keep reading to find out the best service model for you.

The number of services and options moving to the Cloud is increasing exponentially. This is also increasing the confusion and complexity faced by IT departments. This doesn’t only  apply to  traditional, premise-based infrastructure services, but also the manner in which line of business users consume services from external cloud providers.

In this article, we explore the construct of a Cloud Services Broker in relation to IT, and key attributes that make for a successful Cloud Services Broker platform. We learn how CloudSystem Matrix enhanced with the integration of HP Cloud Services Automation (CSA) unlocks IT’s potential as a broker of cloud services on to itself and her line of business users.

As cloud computing evolves, the integration of cloud services can be too complex for IT to manage across a private and/or hybrid cloud environment.  So what should you do to keep pace and reduce complexity? 

The first step is to learn about the different cloud service models that IT is expected to support, and the scope of work behind each of these cloud service models. Continue reading to find out more about the full range of cloud services you can expect from HP Cloud Service Automation.

As more customers embrace cloud computing to meet today’s constantly changing business challenges, IT’s traditional role of providing infrastructure services evolves to acting as a broker and consumer of other services from third- party cloud environments.

IT needs to develop a hybrid delivery model so it can deliver the right service from the right place at the right time. This is necessary for IT to extend its existing premise-based best practices and adopt external cloud providers.  It makes the managing and securing delivery of services from mixed resources possible. You begin by first automating repetitive tasks into best practices, where processes used are in accordance to company policies, and provide the least amount of disruption to existing operations. 

In this article, we’ll explore crucial steps taken by IT when automating their data center for the cloud by reviewing an insightful Forrester’s webinar on January 31, 2013. Continue reading to find out how HP enables your data center for the pragmatic cloud.

Enterprises are in the midst of transformation because of changes with people, process and technology. These changes result in gaps and mismatches between business and development. Bridge these gaps with Agile development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Testing (CT).

Agile development has shifted the development process from one complete release to a series of releases. Agile allows development teams to create new applications and updates with an increasing release frequency.  Continue reading to reveal how this has helped organizations prepare for the DevOps journey.

HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) is the industry’s most comprehensive, unified cloud management platform for brokering and managing enterprise-grade applications and infrastructure cloud services. Improve your time to value through HP Cloud Service Automation’s  open extensible architecture, which  allows you to easily integrate with partners.

Become an enterprise-grade broker of cloud services, by using the most complete hybrid cloud solution for both infrastructure and application provisioning with HP Cloud Service Automation.

In this cloud automation partner series, we will explore how partner capabilities enhance CSA’s cloud management platform. We will look specifically at the use of Adaptive Computing and the Moab Cloud Optimizer® product. This extends CSA’s ability to develop a complex set of decision and policies around resource deployment and provisioning. For a policy based workload management system.

I recently attended an insightful IDC analyst review on software predictions for 20131, that has in many parts validated key constructs which HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) was propose built to address. Cloud automation functionalities recently announced at HP Discover in Frankfurt of December 2012.

In this article, we will explore how HP Cloud Service Automation, as an enterprise-grade broker of cloud services, is well poised to take on cloud automation challenges in 2013. And in doing so, be a key enabler to the consumerization of Big Data for the Real Time Enterprise in 2013.

1 “Riding the Momentum : In a Diverse World of Software, Where is the Growth ? ”, IDC Software Predictions 2013.

According to a recent Gartner survey*, IT organizations are recognizing the acute need of application development teams and operations teams to work better together. In an effort to overcome this disconnect and develop closer collaboration, the “DevOps” trend has been born. 

In this article, we will explore the innovative use of HP’s Flexible Application Modeling, with HP’s Continuous Delivery Automation. HP plays an integral part toward resolving existing dissonance and fostering better collaboration across DevOps today.

* “Catalysts Signal the Growth of DevOps”, Gartner survey Feb 2012.

HP Continuous Delivery Automation is part of a portfolio of HP solutions that help organizations adopt DevOps practices to increase agility across the application life cycle and collaborate effectively to deliver better applications, faster.

HP Continuous Delivery Automation is an integral component to HP CloudSystem. It helps automate application development and testing for the Cloud. Find out more on what was released  at HP Discover 2012 event in Frankfurt.

As part of the HP Converged Cloud portfolio and an integral component of HP CloudSystem, HP Cloud Service Automation provides a secure, highly available, enterprise-grade cloud management solution to help your customers meet increasingly stringent service-level agreements. Find out more on what was announced at HP Discover 2012 event in Frankfurt.

Calling all cloud practitioners ! Start exercising your given business right for Choice today. Raise the bar on innovative services delivery with Confidence. Have peace of mind, by knowing that your systems are operating with clockwork Consistency.

This is a three-part blog series that examines the importance of these pivots: IT Choice, IT Confidence and IT Consistency, as seen across the Cloud and Traditional IT space.

We conclude with IT Consistency, and what that means to you in the Cloud and Traditional IT space.

Calling all cloud practitioners ! Start exercising your given business right for Choice today. Raise the bar on innovative services delivery with Confidence. Have peace of mind, by knowing that your systems are operating with clockwork Consistency.

This is a three-part blog series that examines the importance of these pivots: IT Choice, IT Confidence and IT Consistency, as seen across the Cloud and Traditional IT space.

We will continue with IT Confidence, and what that means to you in the Cloud and Traditional IT space.

By Collin Chau

Calling all cloud practitioners ! Start exercising your given business right for Choice today. Raise the bar on innovative services delivery with Confidence.Have peace of mind, by knowing that your systems are operating with clockwork Consistency.

This is a three-part blog series that examines the importance of these pivots:IT Choice, IT Confidence and IT Consistency, as seen across the Cloud and Traditional IT space.

We will start with IT Choice, and what that means to you in the Cloud and Traditional IT space.