Specifications

other well known vendors. With the introduction of the midrange servers based on the Intel Itanium 2
micro-architecture, HP is the only vendor that offers the services to support the implementation of
multiple operating systems (UNIX, Windows, OpenVMS, and Linux) on a single Itanium-based server.
HP Services can utilize its wide range of offerings and its experienced services personnel to help
companies fully exploit the Intel Itanium micro-architecture capabilities while protecting their existing
infrastructures.
Full lifecycle services
HP Services offers a portfolio of services that meet your business requirements across your IT lifecycle.
Whether it’s a discrete short-term engagement or a full-scale project deployment, HP helps you fully
exploit the Intel Itanium architecture capabilities while protecting your existing infrastructures and IT
investments by positioning you to meet your evolving business needs.
• Evaluation and planning—HP Services experts help your company determine the best strategy for
seamlessly integrating Itanium-based systems into your existing infrastructure to improve
performance, reduce costs, and gain control of your IT environment. Working closely with your
team, HP helps you develop an architecture that matches your IT environment to your business
requirements and then creates a detailed migration plan that provides specific recommendations
based upon your IT needs.
• Porting and migration—HP offers flexible porting and migration services that help you retain or
enhance your application functionality, reduce disruptions during migration, and take full
advantage of the distinctive capabilities of the Intel Itanium architecture. HP can work with you to
determine your porting and migration needs, devise a strategy for moving applications to Itanium-
based platforms, and create a detailed migration plan. And HP can manage all the details,
including porting and migrating your applications, migrating your data, integrating your
applications with existing ones, and performing application tuning, if that is what you need.
• IT consolidation—HP offers IT consolidation solutions that help you enhance the use of your IT
resources, achieve new performance and productivity levels, and evolve your IT environment to
meet changes in demand. HP Services personnel help you identify your company’s business and IT
objectives, create an investment justification and architectural blueprint, develop a detailed design
plan that incorporates specifics on the configuration and technologies of your company’s solution,
and deliver a complete, tested infrastructure implementation.
• Deployment—HP Services personnel have the experience and expertise to deliver services that can
help reduce the risks, time, and costs associated with deploying new technology. Acting as your
single point of contact, HP develops and implements a deployment plan—including configuration,
testing, and installation of all equipment—that helps provide the seamless deployment of Itanium-
based solutions into full production.
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