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"With Integrity blades and HP-UX 11i v3 supporting our Oracle portal, we’ve gone from having four stand-alone servers and a mixed operating environment to just two blades and a single operating environment. The blades now occupy a fraction of the data center space and standardizing on HP-UX 11i v3 across our environment has made it much easier and more cost effective to administer our systems."
—Jim Gross, Director of IT Operations, AAR Corporation

Migration successes

With the need to consistently serve ads and provide data access, downtime is not an option for DoubleClick. Previously running on an ETL-based application on a Sun Solaris platform, DoubleClick realized the platform offered limited vendor choices. The company chose to investigate alternative platforms that would offer greater flexibility. After selecting Red Hat Linux and HP, DoubleClick ported an equivalent of 112 CPUs on Sun servers running Solaris to 64 Intel and AMD CPUs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This move cut the hardware cost more than half.
Healthplan Services (HPS) is the nation’s largest independent provider of service and technology solutions to the insurance and managed care industries. HPS faced three major business challenges with its aging Sun Solaris on SPARC hardware with RISC architecture. HPS migrated from Sun SPARC running Solaris to HP ProLiant servers running Linux-Red Hat Enterprise and MySQL. They are anticipating a three-year return on investment (ROI) once its full migration is complete.
National City, one of the largest financial holding companies in the county, made the strategic decision to reengineer its datacenter infrastructure. National City chose to move away from legacy Sun servers running Solaris and Oracle to HP ProLiant servers running Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server and Oracle. The datacenter’s new infrastructure now runs on a combination of physical and virtual HP ProLiant DL580 servers in a production environment. The price-performance of the platform has proven exceptional.
NYSE Euronext needed to integrate varied trading platforms to produce a high-speed, low-cost platform. This platform needed to offer the reliability and flexibility necessary to produce the rapid performance results demanded by the expanding financial trading industry. Consequently, NYSE Euronext chose to migrate from HP UX11i, IBM AIX, and Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP ProLiant servers.
Staffordshire University in the UK wanted to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of its server estate by moving away from the Sun Solaris operating system. They also wanted to enhance the capacity, manageability, and scalability of its storage and backup architectures. They achieved this by moving to the HP ProLiant servers with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform.
One of the largest suppliers of paper and pulp products in Latin America, Suzano Pulp and Paper (Companhia Suzano de Papel e Celulose S.A.) had been running its SAP 4.6c application on an aging, soon-to-be unsupported Sun/Solaris/Informix environment. SUZANO migrated this legacy system to an HP/Microsoft Windows®/Microsoft SQL environment on Integrity rx2660, Integrity rx6600, and ProLiant DL360 G5 Servers, gaining higher SAP performance and lowering overall costs significantly.
TransACT Communications, based in Canberra, Australia, specializes in building and operating a fibre optic broadband network. TransACT needed to increase the processing environment and data recovery platform for its billing data system because of a growing customer base. TransACT chose to implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS on an HP server, increasing processing speed by 400 percent over their legacy Sun Solaris environment. Costs were cut by nearly 50 percent and the new platform also met TransACT’s ‘zero fault tolerance’ policy.
As a leader in the Russian banking sector, VTB Bank has one of the biggest correspondent networks among Russian banks, requiring them to maintain cooperation and develop partnerships with leading financial institutions of Russia’s main trading partners. Previously the bank’s payment system was based on hard partitions in two Sun Fire 6800 servers running Solaris. In need of a resilient, secure and efficient IT infrastructure to achieve increased business agility and reduce maintenance costs, VTB chose to migrate to HP Integrity Superdome servers as well as ProLiant and Integrity server blades, enabling the bank to meet their evolving business needs.

Customers realize savings and value migrating from Sun to HP

AAR Corporation, an aviation support company, replaced their two-tiered Solaris/Linux platform with a single HP Integrity blade running HP-UX 11i v3. The company reduced server demand by 50 percent, doubled transaction times, achieved greater availability, and reduced TCO.
Migrating their existing ERP solution from Sun/Solaris/Oracle to HP Integrity rx8640 running Windows and ProLiant DL380 servers has helped Arcelik improve SAP system performance by three times and lower their total cost of ownership.
BT Vision replaced Sun Fire V210 servers with HP ProLiant server blades, saving more than 80 percent in equipment costs. A 10x performance increase with ProLiant allowed BT to project a six figure annual increase in revenue and 60 percent savings in maintenance.
As manager of the nation's largest water supply system, California's Department of Water Resources (DWR) needed to increase compute capacity and meet the state's IT green initiatives. By moving from Sun Solaris systems to ProLiant server blades in HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosures, the agency was able to save USD$2.2 million in maintenance costs. It also tripled performance and capacity of compute resources, while reducing server count, and increased transaction speeds for its SAP applications fourfold. Read about these great results and more in this new case study.
Dubai World, focused on helping Dubai, United Arab Emirates, become a leading commerce and tourist hub, has interests in transportation, logistics, tourism, dry docks, maritime, real estate, urban development and financial services. While the company previously used IBM/AIX, Sun/Solaris and HP/OpenVMS/Tru64 UNIX® servers and operating systems, they realized the heterogeneous platform on a whole was difficult and expensive to manage. The Dubai World IT staff sought to centralize the technology and streamline costs by allying with a single technology vendor, ultimately choosing HP as their strategic partner in their forward planning. HP Integrity Superdome servers with HP-UX 11i v3 help the company maintain continuous 100% service levels while lowering their licensing costs by 35%.
Eastern Municipal moved from Sun Solaris servers to HP ProLiant with Windows and Oracle, consolidating Sun SAN to HP StorageWorks EVA, achieving more flexible storage for Solaris, Windows and VMware environments. Five-year ROI estimated at 66 percent with savings of $57K immediately and additional $200K savings in storage hardware costs. Storage downtime reduced to zero; maintenance costs reduced by 31 percent.
France Telecom, Orange, moved from Sun SPARC to HP ProLiant BL680c and Integrity BL860c server blades running multiple operating systems including Solaris 10, reducing servers by 50 percent (eliminating approximately 10,000 servers), consolidating 17 datacenters into two and saving $27M over three years.
ICA Fluor, Mexico’s largest construction company, projects HP Integrity Superdomes running Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resources Management and an Oracle database chosen to replace their previous Sun platform will save $1 million US in cumulative IT costs over three years and help guide the company through exponential growth.
Jet Airways reduced costs of application infrastructure by deploying HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks, realizing 80 percent price advantage over Sun 24-way machine and 20 percent better price-performance ratio on HP servers running the Solaris operating system.
Meccanotecnica Umbra S.p.A. (MTU), a leading Italian manufacturer, chose to replace their Sun Fire servers with HP Integrity server blades running Windows to acquire 40 percent more computing performance and a savings of 30 percent on operational costs.
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Megafon, Russia’s third-largest mobile telecom operator, decided to migrate from Sun Fire E25K servers to HP Integrity Superdome, realizing 200 percent more I/O performance with 24 fewer processors while managing 50 percent more growth and providing faster transaction.
Facing increasing hardware and software licensing costs with Sun Solaris, Sesame Workshop implemented SUSE Linux Enterprise server on HP ProLiant servers and saved 85 percent over a proprietary platform for new web infrastructure and ultimately reduced hardware costs by 30 percent.