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HP to Customers: Hey, Look at Our Data Center Overhaul

HP execs challenge customers to transform data centers, cut costs.

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The vendor Tuesday kicked off its annual Technology Forum & Expo in Las Vegas today and key company executives took the stage to share with some 7,000 attendees the data center transformation HP underwent using its own technology. CIO Randy Mott explained how in 2005 HP began a project that would ultimately reduce its number of data centers from 85 down to 6, and enable them to operate with 40 percent fewer servers that offered more than 250 percent processing power and doubled their storage at less cost. Now IT supports about 1,500 applications (down from more than 6,000) across fewer data centers, which use HP's remote management and automation software.

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"IT spending its going up at faster rates than other expenditures, and there are more IT professionals than there ever was in history—which would be OK if they were working on innovation," Mott told the crowd. "More people are spending more time supporting obsolete systems and more of our resources are going toward supporting old systems."

Mott went on to explain how today IT is asked to do everything and continues to be challenged by having to do it all across multiple groups—infrastructure, applications, services, information and clients—without additional budget dollars. HP's experience also spanned consolidating resources, using its own BladeSystem products (read about HP’s latest BladeSystem), exploring virtualization and deploying intelligent systems to reduce power consumption and save costs by conserving energy in large data centers. HP was able to bring its IT spending from about 4 percent of revenue down to less than 2 percent by implementing transformational change in a short time period rather than incremental change over the course of many years.

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