Wouldn't it be great to be able to deliver a server solution for the board's requests every time? Making the impossible happen isn't part of the IT Director's role, but sometimes you have to come very close! Blade server virtualisation can help to put you in a position of strength when you need your IT infrastructure to respond quickly to the demands of your business.

Virtualisation is an approach to IT that pools and shares resources including servers, storage and networking, so utilisation is optimised and supply automatically meets demand.

"I need to do more with less!" is a common cry from IT Managers across with world. Virtualisation is your key to being able to make significant strides towards achieving this objective. Fundamentally changing the way hardware assets are utilised, virtualisation offers a range of exciting alternative approaches to innovative IT infrastructure design.

Reducing costs - Since servers, storage, networking and other resources are pooled; resources can be allocated as required. This helps your IT organisation achieve greater asset utilisation, improve IT staff productivity and reduce operational costs.

HP's virtualisation solutions start from modular building blocks pooled into a shared infrastructure of servers, storage and software. Powerful, integrated server management and automation tools then help you realise the full potential of virtualisation.

The HP BladeSystem infrastructure is built for virtualisation via key technologies including VMware, Virtual Connect switching, ProLiant Essentials for auto-deployment and provisioning and the ability to integrate seamlessly with other HP server management tools and storage products.

We partner with Citrix, VMware and Microsoft with direct support provided by HP to ensure that we can integrate virtualisation into a simple package for you. Speak to a server specialist to see how we can help your business. We also have a number of Free server and storage workshops running over the next few months- Sign up for a workshop here.

• HP sells 18% of VMware licences worldwide
• HP has more certified server models and storage systems in VMware than any other vendor*
• More than 55% of all VMware that lands on blades, lands on HP BladeSystem
• HP and HP Enterprise Services have more VMware-certified professionals than anyone except VMware**

• More than 50% of all Citrix installations run on HP servers
• HP employs more than 330 Citrix-certified individuals
• HP is the only platform partner with a full-time engineer on site with Citrix’s development team