Want to make more margin and create closer relationships with customers that have mixed network environments? HP Intelligent Management Centre is for you. We are trying to increase the awareness of HP IMC and how it can be beneficial to you and your customers.
What is IMC?? Launched in July last year, the HP Intelligent Management Centre (IMC) is unique in the market in that it provides one single console for management of heterogeneous network environments including over 1200 Cisco products. Highly scalable, the solution has the capacity to manage 10,000’s of devices and help overcome pressing network challenges associated with projects like virtualisation and BYOD.
The technology puts HP as one of the forerunners in solutions for the Software Defined Network (SDN). At the heart of this is HP’s Virtual Application Networks (VAN’s) which allow rapid deployment of applications and virtual environments through a simple management strategy. Using the Intelligent Management Centre software, organisations can manage all three layers of SDN architecture: infrastructure, control and application.
Paul Kember (Channel Director) at HP commented “from a single pane of glass an end-user can manage their entire network infrastructure – both wired and wireless. Having a single-tool means problems can be tracked down and resolved quickly, which results in 61% less downtime for the average customer! With VAN’s (Virtual Application Networks) applications can be deployed in a literally a few clicks by bridging the gap between Virtual Machine orchestration and Network connectivity”.
Speaking on the solution Wesley Lawrance which is our HP Business Manager here at Westcoast states “Westcoast and HP have seen a lot of success around the solution. We believe that there is a significant opportunity for HP partners to satisfy a genuine business challenge and deploy a very profitable solution in tandem. Almost every customer will have a mixed network and with a patchwork quilt of technology from edge to core they end up with too many tools to make management of the overall network efficient or effective. This tool does for networks what virtualisation has done for infrastructure”.
We have created a novel graphic for partners to better understand the capabilities of the technology. It proposes that deploying the technology will help Network Managers achieve network immortality, likening the challenges these people toil with to the mythical legend of Hercules and the conquest of the 12 labours.
For partners interested in knowing more about the solution, We invite you all to see it in action at one of our demonstration labs across the UK. For non-HP partners we are able to fast-track those wishing to join the HP channel with support covering sales, technical and marketing.
If you need any further information please do not hesitate to contact us.
Regards
Westcoast EG Solutions Team
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