The HP Instant Capacity for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers program builds on the HP strategy of synchronizing business and IT to capitalize on change. By simultaneously driving down IT costs and increasing business agility, HP Instant Capacity gives you the ability to respond rapidly to changes in market conditions or customer demand.
HP Instant Capacity
HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) is a two-step purchase model for acquiring HP Integrity and HP 9000 server hardware. Reserve iCAP processors, cell boards and memory are purchased at a fraction of their regular price and installed in your server – inactive but ready for use. Then, when your needs change and the reserve capacity is needed, permanent activation on a per-core basis is purchased for the remainder of the regular purchase price. After you purchase the Instant Capacity processors, you get five processing days per core of Instant Access Capacity included with every processor, which allows for instant activation of the processors and time for testing and operational trials. The majority of the cost of the processors and the associated HP-UX licensing and support costs are deferred until the time of activation.
Temporary Instant Capacity
Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP) prepares you for demands on your system resources by ordering a 30 processing-day block of temporary capacity for any system that contains Instant Capacity processors. For example, with one TiCAP block, one processor can be activated for 30 days or two processors can be activated for 15 days. Processors may be activated and deactivated as often as needed, and usage is measured in 30-minute increments. TiCAP is managed at the system level so there is no need to send usage reports to HP. The HP-UX operating environment temporary license to use and temporary support fees are included.
Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP)
Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) allows hardware usage rights to be shared among servers, allowing resources to be deactivated in one system and activated in another to meet changing system demands. GiCAP can help protect your mission-critical environment by making it more cost-effective to implement high availability systems. With GiCAP, usage rights for hardware resources (processors, cell boards and memory) in a system that becomes unavailable (either planned or unplanned) can be released and used to activate resources in another Instant Capacity server.
Instant Capacity for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers helps your organization:
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