Cisco HP Strategic Alliance

reach: beyond

Cisco and HP: A Powerful Partnership That Reaches Beyond

How do you ensure you are
investing in the right network
infrastructurea solid, secure,
intelligent foundation capable of
powering the right solutions for your
existing and emerging needs?
Cisco and HP have combined
resources to bring you the industrys
top networking knowledge, skills,
software and hardware to help you
find the best answer for your
business. First, we design and
implement the right infrastructure
to meet your unique requirements.
Then we add the best in advanced
IP solutions and services, including:
Data Center
Intelligent Building
IP Communications
Mobility and Wireless
Management
Storage Networking
With the right combination of
infrastructure and solutions, you
can build an adaptive enterprise
capable of meeting any challenge
and pursuing every opportunity.
We can help you reach beyond.

Agility, innovation, and mastery of change

critical success factors in todays turbulent
marketplacedepend on your information
technology infrastructure. With the right
infrastructure, everything else in your business
becomes possible.
Overview
To achieve peak performance in todays turbulent marketplace, you need an
intelligently-designed network foundation powering applications that enable
your organization to function as an agile, adaptive enterprisean enterprise
capable of quickly and profitably responding to ever-changing business
environments and customer needs.
At the heart of an adaptive enterprise is an intelligent information network that
empowers people and processes to reach:
Beyond the average to achieve the extraordinary
Beyond the present to create a more successful future
Beyond the limited to unleash the possibilities

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Why Cisco and HP?
Because technology is core to our business, Cisco
Systems and HP know how to build an intelligent
information infrastructure that drives the strategic
movement of data, voice, and video across a system
of networks. Optimizing our own use of technology
is a critical element in keeping us at the forefront of
our industry.

becomes possible. HP Services is the uniting force

which brings together Cisco leadership in enterprise
networking infrastructure and HPs leadership in
servers, storage and network and computer
management to deliver the enterprise agility and
flexibility that will enable you to:

As long-time industry leaders, we understand that

information technology is critical to your success, and
that with the right infrastructure everything else

Significantly improve productivity

Drive better business results

Respond to dynamic business conditions

HP Services
With your business online all day, every day, the
availability of your infrastructure is critical. Whether
you serve other businesses or consumers, your
customers expect immediate service and
responsiveness.

approach to fit your needs. Using a proven set of

methodologies, HP Services professionals work
collaboratively with youdrawing on a comprehensive
portfolio of integrated offerings to give you the
greatest choice and value from your investment.

As a Cisco Global Systems Integrator, holding

certifications in 46 countries with gold status in 34,
HP offers the broad support skills, services
infrastructure, networking expertise, and worldwide
deployment of Cisco-certified service professionals
to satisfy the widest range of network solution
requirements. HPs global network of 6,500 highly
skilled professionals, including 1,600 Cisco
multi-certified services people, can help you manage
information resources, provide consistent performance,
and deliver secure access with a comprehensive suite
of proactive services.

HP Services can help you:

Together, Cisco and HP provide a complete portfolio

of services tailored to your unique and emerging
business and IT needs. We partner closely with you to
help your company design, build, integrate, manage,
and evolve an adaptive infrastructure that lets you
effectively respond to changes in your business.

Link business and IT to better align your IT resources

to your bottom line

We take the time to understand your specific business

needs and IT environment, and then adjust our

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Ensure cost-effective stability and flexibility with

unparalleled support for handling your end-to-end
distributed IT resources
Reduce complexity with services to seamlessly
manage your entire multi-vendor, heterogeneous
infrastructures and complex networks
Optimize assets with access to world-class R&D
teams, lifecycle maturity specialists, and new
technology integration teams that will help you
prepare your infrastructure for the challenges of
today and tomorrow

Championing a client-centric approach that is results

driven and technology enabled, Cisco and HP provide
business solutions that deliver rapid return on your IP
investment.

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Solutions
Cisco and HP are collaborating to bring you advanced IP solutions that serve as the building blocks of an adaptive
enterprise. Our combination of end-to-end HP Services and Cisco best-in-class technology delivers the agility and
flexibility you need to future-proof your business. These joint solutions create the foundation you need to succeed:

The HP Utility Data Center (UDC) Built on

Cisco Data Center Solutions
The HP UDC Built on Cisco Data Center Solutions
makes it possible for customers to virtualize data
center resourcesservers, networking, storage and
applicationsand easily reallocate them to meet everchanging business needs. With the HP UDC, its
possible to wire everything once and then virtually
design, configure and dynamically allocate and
reallocate resources with a drag-and drop simplicity
via a web interface. The HP UDC Built on Cisco Data
Center Solutions offers an enhanced solution which
has been pre-tested and optimized to run on Cisco
data center architecture.
Benefits
Build and deploy cost effective computing resources
to increase business agility
Reduce operational costs
Increase service levels
Reduce risk
Provide a secure environment

Intelligent Building
Property owners and property managers can use
new wireless, IP communications, and networking
technologies to increase differentiation from
competitors, reduce costs through operational
efficiencies, and create new revenue streams through
value-added applications for residents, tenants, and
guests. Applications such as community portals,
wireless Internet access, IP telephony, and video-ondemand can be delivered as seamlessly as utilities,
such as water and power, on a property's infrastructure.

IP Communications
IP Communications is a comprehensive system of
enterprise-class offerings that includes IP Telephony
and IP Contact Center. Enabled by Cisco AVVID
(Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data),
IP Communications solutions create an empowered,
effective work environment.
IP Telephony Solutions leverage a single network
infrastructure for the converged transmission of data,
voice, and video. IP Telephony Solutions and
integration services can save up to 30 percent on
network costs via lower management, bandwidth,
and application integration efforts. IP Telephony can
also help increase productivity, flexibility, and
customer service with new IP-based applications,
such as unified messaging, distance learning, virtual
collaboration, and intelligent virtual call centers.
IP Contact Center (IPCC) Solutions enable call agents
using Cisco IP phones to receive both traditional,
time-division multiplexing (TDM) and voice-over-IP
(VoIP) calls. IPCC provides network-to-desktop
contact management for phone and Internet
communications, works in single, multi-site, and
service-provided contact center environments, and is
deployed and supported by HP to meet customers
specific needs.
Benefits
More effective enterprise-wide collaboration
Increased organizational agility and productivity
Reduced operational costs

Benefits
Differentiate property and guest experience
Attract/retain tenants and guests
Generate new revenue streams
Reduce costs through operational efficiencies
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Mobility and Wireless

Wireless technologies provide increasingly mobile
workforces with faster access to time-critical
information. The result is increased productivity,
improved decision-making, and accelerated customer
responsiveness. For example, on-the-go professionals
can use wireless local area network (WLAN) hot spots
in public venues, such as airports, hotels, and coffee
shops, to connect to the Internet, corporate intranet,
email, enterprise data, and applications with speed
and ease. Or, in a manufacturing environment,
supervisors and production workers can remotely
monitor the quality of work in process.
Benefits
Access when you need it, where you need it
Real mobile productivity with broadband
connectivity
Complete, integrated end-to-end solutions

A single view and comprehensive network map

of Cisco and other IP devices
Prompt identification and resolution of root
cause problems
Quantification of business impact resulting from
network faults

Storage Networking
In a knowledge-based economy, information is king.
But information that is difficult to access, vulnerable
to disaster, or costly to keep is more risk than asset.
Cisco and HPs storage networking solutions deliver
innovative design for unprecedented scalability,
availability, security, and management. Networked
storage is the way to effectively converge and
consolidate multiple storage architectures to reduce
the cost and complexity of managing the inevitable
data explosion.

Management

Benefits

Web-based network management plays an

increasingly critical role in assuring that end-to-end
solutions have the availability and capacity necessary
to meet growing business requirements. Cisco and HP
provide outstanding management for Cisco devices
and multi-vendor networks.

Centralized storage management for operational

efficiency

Benefits
Better and easier management of Cisco
infrastructure with extensive out of the box
Cisco device coverage

Business continuance and disaster recovery to

protect your data
Scalability across the enterprise
Increased network availability through innovative
design

For More Information Contact:

Cisco HP Strategic Alliance
info@hpcisco.com
www.hpcisco.com

With the right combination of infrastructure and solutions, you can build an adaptive
enterprise capable of meeting any challenge and pursuing every opportunity. We can
help you reach beyond.

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