Prioritize technology investments
As part of its Applications Management Services portfolio, EDS, an HP company, is now offering clients the option of tiered levels of service, which lower the cost of running less-critical applications while maintaining the highest service levels for critical applications. This flexible approach to managing services helps maximize the business value of applications and can reduce overall application maintenance costs by up to 40 percent.(7)
New Consolidation and Virtualization ROI services can validate the expected savings and return on investment from technology projects. The risks of long project approval and implementation cycles are minimized, so customers can move quickly to adjust to the changing economy, while aligning technology investments with business growth objectives.
Multi-Tiered Hybrid Design is a new service that helps customers design an entire data center facility to more accurately reflect the different infrastructure and availability requirements of the business. Often, an enterprise data center 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 center with two (or more) tiers of service, data center capital costs can be reduced by 15 to 25 percent.(8)
Adopt flexible sourcing
An enhanced suite of EDS infrastructure services helps reduce costs and create efficiencies while offering predictable pricing. EDS' enhanced Managed Services give clients more sourcing choices and control through a set of modular, standard packages that provide fast implementation and rapid client value. The offerings cover server and storage operations, service desk, flexible computing and managed messaging.
HP also offers flexible financing and leasing options through HP Financial Services. A new HP white paper released this month shows how chief information officers can help chief financial officers ease the pain of a tough economy by choosing advanced strategies such as technology life cycle management through leasing.
