HP Unveils New Cloudline Servers for Service Providers
March 10, 2015
Grazed from CIOToday. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.
Hewlett-Packard has just unveiled new, low-cost servers — the Cloudline family of servers — to meet the needs of service providers that want to differentiate themselves in the market. HP said its new open standards-based solutions, partnerships and flexible business Relevant Products/Services models will help service providers drive growth, accelerate service delivery and reduce costs.
HP may be right on time with its solutions, given IDC research that shows most organizations will stop managing their own infrastructures over the next five years. The IDC data Relevant Products/Services suggests enterprises will more often turn to dedicated and shared cloud Relevant Products/Services offerings in service provider data centers in the years ahead…
If IDC’s research pans out, service providers — including software Relevant Products/Services-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, managed hosters, consumer service providers, telco/communication service providers — will need highly scalable infrastructures that support business growth and flexible business models that match costs to revenue so they can meet customer expectations…
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