HP Virtualisation Event: July 2011

HP Virtualisation & Converged Infrastructure Event 20 July 2011
Held at the fantastic Sketch Gallery in London, Equanet hosted a bespoke virtualisation and converged infrastructure event on Wednesday, 20 July 2011.
Over 25 delegates took the opportunity to attend this event in an exceptional venue and explore ideas with experts from Equanet and HP. 
HP Client Virtualisation can help customers achieve the goals of IT and workforce support, without compromising on performance, operating costs, information security, and user experience. HP Client Virtualisation Reference Architectures provide:
Simplicity: with an integrated data centre solution for rapid installation/start-up and easy ongoing operations
Optimisation: a tested solution with the right combination of compute, storage, networking, and system management tuned for Client Virtualisation efficiency
Flexibility: with options to scale up and/or scale out to meet precise customer requirements
Converged Infrastructure
Where do you want to invest your IT budget? Delivering new applications to help you make your business more competitive? Help you enter new markets? Help your business transform? Businesses everywhere are looking to IT to deliver more value to the business. Tomorrow’s business will be built on a converged infrastructure. Unleash the potential and build on what you have today.
Converged Virtual Storage
The storage landscape is changing and businesses need to understand what they can do to address their storage challenges:
1. Managing unpredictable growth - virtual sprawl can outpace storage available
2. Fulfilling high availability requirements - required for comprehensive server application availability
3. Implementing disaster recovery - quickly and easily resume business after an unforeseen event
HP Smart Clients
Too smart to be called zero, their auto-sensing Technology adapts to your environment, automatically identifying and connecting to the right client virtualisation infrastructure in just seconds. Take a look at the Zero Thin Client presentation to find out more.
Equanet Solutions Specialists
We introduced a number of our solutions specialists to the delegates at the event. Our specialists understand the challenges faced by businesses today and will work with you to help you make the most of your technology and identify opportunities to deliver more value to your business. Helping you to reduce operational costs and free up budget for more strategic or innovative needs. If you want to discuss how we can help you and your business or to find out more about the Equanet and HP solutions, call today on 08444 12 11 10.
Maximising your technology investment and ensuring it's fit for the future was a key theme at the event, utilising HP's virtualisation solutions and the potential of converged server storage and cloud infrastructures
Download the presentations:
- Welcome (pdf)
- Converged Infrastructure - Blades (pdf)
- Converged Virtual Storage (pdf)
- Zero Thin Client (pdf)
- HP - WebOS (pdf)
"We've dealt with Equanet for nearly 10 years, the service and product delivery is excellent and we've also seen a real difference in the solutions capability over the past 6 months."
As a result of the event,70% of customers said they had an improved perception of Equanet and a staggering 94% of attendees said they would be interested in future Equanet/HP events so this is clearly something we'll be looking to do again, given the success of this event.
Most Valuable Learning:
WebOS and Cloud for the future.
Meeting the Equanet Account Managers and the Techies to talk about solutions.
HP Virtualisation Event: July 2011
Equanet's virtualisation seminar was held at London's Sketch Gallery and provided a platform for HP's virtualisation experts to showcase the technology behind our solution