Hewlett-Packard White Paper Sample
According to the Uptime Institute, only 10% of Tier IV data centers will achieve a consistent level of performance of 99.995% availability. IDC, an IT research firm, has determined that five business practices
dramatically reduce downtime, by as much as 92%, and include:
- Proactive Services from a vendor/partner or outsourced service provider
- IT framework best practices, such as ITIL administration
- Monitoring and Management tools
- Failover Clustering
- Virtualization
With the investment in HP Proactive Select, this customer has enhanced their Proactive Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, and the Management Tools in their IT quiver, moving the needle a bit closer to IT excellence.