HP launched Multi-Tiered Hybrid Design, a data center service aimed at helping users "reflect the different infrastructure and availability requirements of the business."
The company said: Often, an enterprise data centre is built to a single specification to meet the most exacting standard, even though this is not needed for all systems. By designing a "hybrid" data centre with two (or more) tiers of service, data centre capital costs can be reduced by 15 to 25 percent.
Alongside the data center service HP combined a number of storage area network products with offerings from EDS that will segment mission and non mission critical applications and charge for maintenance accordingly.
On the product front, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 6400 and 8400 (EVA6400 and EVA8400) cut storage administration costs by up to 50 percent, the company said. HP's SAN Virtualisation Services Platform 2.1 (SVSP 2.1) is a network-based storage virtualisation solution that increases available storage capacity. It also cuts migration, replication and backup times. Solutions like the SVSP 2.1 allow customers to reduce storage acquisition costs by up to 50 percent, according to market research firm IDC.
HP company EDS is offering tiered service levels of service separating less-critical applications while maintaining the highest service levels for critical applications saying this approach could cut application maintenance costs by up to 40 percent, the company said.