Converged Cloud
Today, mobility, big data and the advent of cloud computing are representative of technology shifts that offer great value but increase complexity. HP Converged Cloud delivers an Enterprise-Class solution that enables businesses and government to harness the power of the cloud from development to delivery and seamlessly manage the experience across the hybrid IT environment. It enables customers to gain access to the right IT services, from the right places, at the right time, at the right cost; and provides a means to speed innovation, enhance agility and improve financial management.
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Information Optimization
For the first time in the IT industry, there is a fundamental shift in the "I": information in the form of social media, rich media, clickstreams, sensor data, audio, video, images, email and more. The ability to extract real value from human information is the new currency of business, but only if enterprises can analyze and act on 100% of information. Learn how HP can help you address governance, management, social media, analytics, and big data opportunities with structured and unstructured data.
Security and Risk Management
In today's constantly evolving IT landscape, security must protect assets without constricting the flow of information between enterprises and governments and their customers or citizens. Discover how HP can help you develop integrated security approaches that deliver advantage by aligning security to ever-changing business and government demands.
Create, Consume and Share
Today's world is social, mobile, and connected. HP helps you get more out of everything you do with a variety of powerful solutions to help you create, consume and share all of the things you care about at work and at play.
Application Transformation
Evolving business models, technology advancements, and a changing workforce are mega-trends shaping the next generation of successful businesses and governments. Core to the exploitation of these trends is Application Transformation, a capability of HP that helps you gain control over aging applications and exploit game-changing technologies in the areas of Cloud Computing and Mobility.
Converged Infrastructure
HP Services can help you balance IT efficiency, innovation, and modernization as you try to reconcile the best convergence approach to position your organization to meet market and operational pressures. Join us as we share expert knowledge, proven methodologies, comprehensive financing options, and global resources to help you improve the way you work. Learn about our Converged Infrastructure Programs that provide you the additional resources you need to fully capitalize on your investments - from Certification and training programs, to working with our extensive partner and supplier ecosystem, to specialized programs for OEMs and Service Providers.
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Industry Standard Servers
As we celebrate 23 years of ProLiant, we know your success depends upon solutions to unlock your organization's full potential. Join us in the Industry Standard Servers track and experience how we are helping you respond to the cloud era by making servers smarter. Learn how innovation in the form of better application optimization, unmatched energy efficiency, and just plain simpler management and support throughout the lifecycle gives you the ability to improve your service levels for a lot less cost and effort.
Mission-Critical Systems
As an IT leader you depend on your mission-critical environments to play a vital role in the success of your organization because downtime can mean lost business. HP Business Critical Systems announced Project Odyssey to revolutionize the future of mission-critical computing. In the Mission-Critical Systems track, you will discover how HP continues to advance the future of mission-critical computing on Integrity, HP-UX, NonStop, and OpenVMS. You will also learn how HP is furthering the scale-up x86 environment by making the full mission-critical experience a reality for Windows and Linux environments.
Storage
Converged infrastructure is changing the way people buy and deploy storage. Not only is storage an increasingly important component of future data centers, HP is also offering a new approach to run storage. Regardless of whether you have virtualized your infrastructure, whether you have just started your journey to the cloud or run your environment the traditional way, your approach to deploying, managing, and provisioning storage needs to radically change in order to increase the efficiency and agility of your IT infrastructure. Learn how HP storage offers you unique benefits to make your converged infrastructure a reality.
Networking
HP Networking has changed the balance of power in the networking industry with the FlexNetwork architecture, a converged network, server, storage, and security fabric based on open standards that delivers up to twice the industry-leading performance and reduces total cost of ownership by up to 60%. HP continues to pioneer advances in networking technology by developing solutions, products, and services to better serve our customers and help them meet their changing business needs. In the Networking track, you will learn more about the FlexNetwork architecture and the innovations HP continues to make to simplify networking, virtualization, and cloud connectivity.
IT Energy Management
HP leads the way in energy efficient computing. Attend these sessions to get valuable information on how to maximize your data center for energy efficiency. Topics will focus on rack and power, data center design and build for energy optimization, and modular data center solutions. You will learn how to get the most out of your data center to increase efficiency, reduce energy usage and associated costs, and free up capacity for future growth.
Infrastructure Management
The HP Insight Management portfolio helps you manage and optimize your HP ProLiant, HP BladeSystem, and HP Integrity server resources in real time. You can automate server management tasks, improve IT staff efficiency, reduce deployment time, and maximize server uptime – all while controlling energy costs. With HP Matrix Operating Environment, you can provision physical and virtual infrastructure in minutes, optimize your HP Infrastructure with patented capacity planning technology and protect continuity of service. HP's infrastructure management tools also integrate with the leading virtualization vendors' management environments, providing powerful hardware/software management.
Virtualization Solutions
As virtualization has gained adoption, multitier network architectures, virtual sprawl, and inflexible storage, have increased complexity. HP's Converged Infrastructure technologies including our turnkey VirtualSystem solutions and virtualized HP Networking solutions, HP Storage, HP servers, and HP Insight Management software have helped more customers address these challenges and enabled them to deploy more VM's and support more virtual clients faster, with less costs and complexity. HP virtualization solutions help VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Red Hat, and HP-UX customers to deploy and manage existing resources more effectively, migrate data and applications faster, minimize downtime, and provide standardization to enable the pathway to cloud.
Services and Programs
HP Services can help you balance IT efficiency, innovation, and modernization as you try to reconcile the best convergence approach to position your organization to meet market and operational pressures. Join us as we share expert knowledge, proven methodologies, comprehensive financing options, and global resources to help you improve the way you work. Learn about our Converged Infrastructure Programs that provide you the additional resources you need to fully capitalize on your investments – from Certification and training programs, to working with our extensive partner and supplier ecosystem, to specialized programs for OEMs and Service Providers.
Applications Optimized Solutions
HP delivers deeply integrated solutions across business critical applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange 2010, SAP HANA™, Oracle and more. Discover how HP is integrating servers, storage, networking and management to deliver the best application performance and fastest time to value. Learn how you can consolidate thousands of Microsoft SQL Server databases, deploy a 500TB enterprise data warehouse in less than 30 days and seamlessly deploy Exchange 2010 with push-button ease. See how HP integrates industry-leading storage technology with SAP HANA™ to take customers to the next level by providing massive scalability of up to 16 terabytes in a single system.
Mobility
The mobile experience has now become the face of your business and the self-service window into your government agency. Explosive growth in the mobile channel offers enterprises unprecedented opportunities to learn more about their employees, customers or citizens while serving them in unique and new ways. Tomorrow's enterprise leaders will emerge from those organizations that look beyond the device to understand how mobility can deliver a much more personal connection to their organization. Advantage will come from taking a holistic approach to the mobile channel, one that connects the employee/customer/citizen directly to your enterprise goals.
Software
IT management professionals—you want your IT organization to be a performance-driven culture that contributes directly to the success of the business. Nearly 200 software sessions at HP Discover 2012 present the newest and best solutions to help you achieve those goals. Through product roadmaps, expert perspectives on key IT trends, best practices, customer success stories and technical deep dives, you'll see how HP Software gives IT the visibility and control you need to operate a seamless, secure technology landscape. Specific topics cover everything that your IT department does, from strategy and planning, to professional and team management, to application development and management, to operations, security, quality assurance, and more. If it's IT management software you're looking to discover and business problems you're trying to solve, attend the HP Software sessions at HP Discover 2012.
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IT Performance Suite
Attend these sessions and learn how HP software can help you manage the strategic performance of your entire IT business. Individual sessions will show you how we can help you improve business strategy alignment, project execution, operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and IT financial performance--as well as your ability to prove IT's value to the business. You'll get acquainted with the IT Performance Suite from HP Software--the industry's first systematic approach to digitizing the sensing, measurement, and instrumentation of the entire IT-controlled landscape into a consolidated view for IT leaders and practitioners. And we'll tell you the complete HP Software story and show you how you can control your entire IT landscape to help your organization perform better.
Strategy, Planning and Governance
Delivering against your business objectives and IT strategy depends on many factors. The most critical is the ability to view and manage your overall performance and to balance the many diverse drivers and demands on your organization. If your people and systems aren't performing at peak levels, and your investments are not in line with enterprise priorities, your organization won't be successful. Most enterprises lack the information and processes to effectively manage their investments in assets and strategic initiatives. Their data is buried in organizational silos and processes are not standardized. Join this track to learn how HP can help your organization achieve real-time process control over projects, portfolios, finances, and resources, thereby better aligning investments with business goals and achieving lower costs with less risk and faster deployments.
Application Lifecycle Management
Nearly every business process in today's enterprise depends on software. Unfortunately, enterprise IT organizations struggle to deliver modern applications and services at the speed the business demands. Join us in these track sessions and learn how HP is delivering the industry's first integrated application delivery system for managing and automating the complete application lifecycle, from proposal to production. You'll see how the HP web-based solution can be deployed on your premises or accessed via software-as-a-service, and how it works across all major development environments for both custom and packaged applications.
Operations Management
Silo'ed operations and manual processes are no longer adequate in a world that demands speed, agility, efficiency, cost control, and strong alignment with overall IT performance. The sessions in this track explain how HP IT operations solutions bridge application performance monitoring and data center infrastructure management by spanning network, system, storage, and client devices and servers. We'll show you how they automate key service-desk and asset management processes while enabling you to manage your IT infrastructure and operational processes across the lifecycle of applications and business services. Sessions will cover data center automation and cloud-service automation, and customer case studies and detailed discussions of recent product developments will demonstrate how HP IT operations solutions—delivered via traditional software licenses or as software-as-a-service—can help your operations team deliver reliability, security, and regulatory compliance with minimal staff and cost.
Quality and Performance Validation
While most IT organizations are currently transforming their applications, the businesses they support are still requiring them to be agile, deliver faster, and keep quality high. How do you achieve all this? Attend the sessions in this track and explore solutions and processes that can help you meet rising demands as you conduct functional and performance testing. Whether your environment is simple or complex, whether your infrastructure is traditional, mobile, or cloud-based, HP specialists and our most successful customers will show you how to deliver quality in today's demanding context.
Security
Risk management has evolved from a discipline focused on compliance to a process of managing overall business risk. With hybrid environments becoming the norm and users accessing business services from anywhere in the world through multiple devices, IT must measure, understand, and act on risk across the entire organization. This track will help you identify and solve business-risk issues in the areas of application security, mobile security, cloud security, network security, security monitoring, data security, and log analysis. In addition, several sessions show you how to measure and respond to overall business risk with a combination of IT operations and security operations.
Services
Are you ready for what's next? Tap into the in-depth knowledge of HP's people, their innovation and world-class processes to stay ahead of changing demands and achieve better business results. From services that help you optimize your technology infrastructure to ways you can leverage HP's outsourcing expertise, you'll gain insights and answers in the sessions in the Services track. Learn how collaboration with HP can help you to: grow your business, increase agility and manage risk, shift spending from operations to innovation, and drive improved enterprise decisions.
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Strategic Enterprise Services
Meeting "I need it now" expectations is a common requirement that IT executives face today. Businesses are evolving and changing at a rapid pace, and IT should be ahead of the curve, anticipating and preparing for these changes. What is working for enterprises that want to accelerate their initiatives with Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and Social Intelligence? HP Enterprise Services delivers high-value solutions to help you innovate, manage information and risk, and become more agile so you can better serve your customers and citizens in an instant. Let us help you discover what works for you.
Converged Infrastructure Services
At the heart of HP Converged Infrastructure is the concept of any workload, anywhere, anytime. This is what we mean by delivering the data center of the future, right now. HP Converged Infrastructure is achieved by bringing all server, storage, and networking resources together into a common pool. Only then can resources be dynamically provisioned, shared by many applications, and managed as a service.
This track will allow you to discover how HP's consulting experts help to converge infrastructure to make it future ready. Furthermore, you will gain a better understanding of our robust set of offerings, delivered by consulting and support experts who work collaboratively with you to help improve utilization, accelerate delivery, and simplify management so your key resources can be free to focus on innovation.
Data Center Transformation Services
This track will show you what it takes to start or accelerate your transformation journey. Our HP consulting experts, spanning business and IT strategy, can transform your IT to deliver real-time services and generate IT-enabled business growth.
The track offers plenty of opportunities to discuss your cloud journey and hybrid delivery options, energy efficiency solutions, UC&C solutions, and IT consolidation, migration, and virtualization strategies with our experts.
Mission Critical Services
Today every IT department has a mission critical environment to support, and keeping it running smoothly 24x7 requires a lot more than hardware and software support. In this track, our customers will learn how HP is driving higher levels of efficiency and improving the customer experience through support automation and a new on-line support portal.
HP clients will hear about best practices for minimizing service interruptions in mission critical environments and about new approaches to troubleshooting complex interoperability problems. You can also polish your skills and expertise by attending a number of focused technical sessions and by speaking with HP experts in the Discover Zone.
