How to flex your capacity like a boss9 reasons why flexible capacity is a better approach for hybrid IT
August, 2016
Flexible whatnow?
Flexible capacity means your on-premise capacity scales to accommodate your changing business needs and workloads, and yet you achieve this without upfront investments in hardware (pay as you grow).
As with the cloud, the concept allows you the convenience to provision capacity in a matter of minutes. (Seriously… it is that fast.)
Read on to learn more.2
1. You might think every app belongs in the cloud. But some don’t.
It’s common to choose the cloud for its agility, simplicity and pay-per-use model. But sometimes the cloud can cause you to inadvertently compromise crucial things like control, security, latency and sovereignty. With flexible capacity of on-premise IT, you have more control over the choice of where to put your workloads.
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2. You can get a public cloud experience for on-premises IT. Really.
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Your datacenter / private cloud
Control, Security, Sovereignty, Low latency
Hybrid
IT
Third-party datacenter/ public cloud
Speed, Agility, Simplicity, Cost flexibility
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Flexible capacity gives you fast access to cloud and traditional IT resources as your needs change – along with all the benefits of both, achieving a more balanced hybrid IT.
No more guessing capacity
Move from capital expense to variable
expense
End undifferentiatedheavy lifting
Fast, easy development
3. You don’t have to be held down by the old rules of capacity.
Flexible capacityto scale up or down
On-demand availability when you
need it
Avoid costlyover-provisioning
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Flexible capacity gives you the ability to provision capacity in minutes. The business gets what it needs ASAP, and you don’t have to chase funds to buy capacity you won’t need for months.
4. You can stop paying for what you aren’t using.
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Flexible capacity enables you to escape the cycle of over-provisioning for growth and pay for what you actually use.
5. You can evolve into a broker of IT services to the business.
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You are a broker, baby. Embrace it.
Performance Price Availability
Manage cost
Make right decisions for business
Manage risks
6. You can go from obstacle to hero.
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Flexible capacity means you’re always ready for the next thing. Like a hero.
7. You can do all this today.
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Introducing HPE Flexible Capacity, a service of HPE Datacenter Care.You get full HPE service and support (even more than what you pay for):
We will jointly determine your capacity needs
Deliver andset up IT on site
Monitorand measure capacity used
Includes DatacenterCare to get the support you need
We will bill you monthly based on actual use
8. You can deploy exactly what you need, when you need it.
Choose from popular options
– Enterprise consultingand multivendor support
– Servers, storage, networks, Converged Systems and software
– Hybrid-ready
– No up-front capital
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9. You can flex your capacity like a boss.
When is HPE Flexible Capacity right for you?
– When large capital outlays and long procurement cycles no longer fit your business
– When you need to be ready for surges in demand
– For data and workloads that should stay on-premises, under your control
– For workloads that could expand to public cloud
– When you need better than “best effort” SLAs
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Make the right choice - HPE Flexible Capacity
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Elastic capacity and enterprise support for Hybrid IT
– Aligns costs with usage monthly via advanced metering
– Infrastructure capacity that never runs out
– Scalable – add capacity in minutes, not months
– Includes HPE Datacenter Care enterprise-grade support
– Applies to servers, software defined and traditional storage, networks, converged systems, and software
– Hybrid-ready with certain Microsoft Azure services
– HPE and multivendor support
– No up-front capital requirements
Forecasted
capacity
Local
bufferPay only for what you use1
Business Application
1subject to a minimum commitment for hardware and software
Thank youLearn how HPE Flexible Capacity makesall this easier than you’ve ever imagined. Visit hpe.com/services/fc
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