For customers who want to move from the traditional siloed IT systems to a shared service model that consolidates IT functions from across the enterprise, HP will offer IT Shared Service Transformation Services, said Joachim Frank, vice president, Enterprise Infrastructure Practice, HP Services.

"In effect IT becomes an internal service provider," Frank said.

A second offering, the Shared Services Utility Portfolio, offers a more gradual approach. The first two shared service utilities will be for development and test environments and Microsoft Exchange.

Forty percent of all IT infrastructure is used for test and development rather than in production. With almost half of that development environment underutilized optimizing the infrastructure through a shared service model for test and development is "low-hanging fruit," Frank said.

Following the first two utility offerings, HP will roll out additional shared service utilities for databases and applications.