Rajat Mehta
Country Manager
Emerging Business
Personal Systems Group, HP India

Client computing is a move away from depending on individual user's PC for computing power. With client virtualization based on single-image management, the support burden shrinks to one: one copy of each application, one copy of Windows, and one point-of-management for the entire enterprise.

HP aims to simplify client computing, so businesses can focus more on innovation and less on IT maintenance. HP's solutions allow organizations to deploy client virtualization solutions today with ease, confidence and less cost. HP extends power of the  Converged Infrastructure to the desktop by providing an end-to-end solution, including servers, storage, services, access and networking devices as well as printers to bring it all together.

“Virtualization has emerged as the most promising trend in recent times in India. When all sectors are harping about the ways of doing business in an environment-friendly manner and make the most of available resources, virtualization has emerged as a leading solution in the IT space to lower operating costs, lower downtime and 'on-demand' IT,” says Rajat Mehta, Country Manager, Emerging Business, Personal Systems Group, HP India. “HP is the only vendor positioned to deliver client virtualization through our end-to-end product and services portfolio.”

Anneliese Olson, Vice-President, Client Solutions, Accessories and Services business for the Personal Systems Group, HP Asia Pacific and Japan, emphasized that CIOs are increasingly worried about the management, security and cost of client computing, which steers them away from implementing server and client virtualization software technologies. 

Demand & Supply: CIOs are facing pressures in management, security, and cost-of-ownership, Complexity and cost, Security and compliance, Change and choice, Productivity, IT sprawl and increased costs.

HP Client Virtualization solutions provide a high quality user experience, increased scalability and reliability in a secure environment. The latest HP t5550, t5565 and t5570 Thin Clients are ideal for customers seeking simple, affordable and reliable computing for typical office applications and Web browsing in most client virtualization or cloud computing environments. The industry's first EPEAT Gold registered thin client, the t5500 series, is ENERGY STAR qualified, BFR/PVC-free(2) and its case parts contain more than 30-per cent post-consumer recycled plastic.

The HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure consolidates the essential elements of a data center - power, cooling, management, connectivity, redundancy, and security - into a modular, flexible, scalable, converged infrastructure with built-in intelligence and support for future technologies. HP ProLiant G7 servers provide modular standards-based building blocks that advance clients towards a converged infrastructure. HP ProLiant servers are designed to give customers the best return on their investment with improved performance, energy efficiency and virtualization capabilities.

In the same vein, HP StorageWorks P4800 BladeSystem SAN is the first HP BladeSystem SAN and the first storage area network (SAN) designed specifically for client virtualization to help organizations improve productivity, flexibility, security and control costs. With software features included, the P4800 SAN provides scalable, shared storage that extends advantages of virtualization to notebooks, laptops and desktops. It supports 1,600 users at 50-per cent less cost and requires 60-per cent less space than traditional client virtualization implementations.

HP Client Infrastructure Services Portfolio is a comprehensive set of consulting services and solutions, built to help organizations extend the benefits from converged infrastructure to the desktop. As HP prepares to serve a market ready for change, the new client infrastructure services portfolio integrates products across HP's computing, software and hardware groups to provide clients with a unified, connected experience that increases productivity.

HP Easy Tools thin client configuration management software simplifies installation and implementation across the network, regardless of model type or operating system.

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