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Gabriel Consulting Group: 2009 report of 2008-09 UNIX® User Preference

Customers prefer HP-UX 11i over AIX and Solaris
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“The UNIX market is a footprint business—days of rapid growth are over, but there will still be growth and HP is well positioned to win."

—Dan Olds, principal analyst, Gabriel Consulting Group

UNIX is a two-horse race—HP-UX 11i v3 leads AIX, Solaris trails by 25 percent

Users prefer HP-UX 11i over AIX and Solaris, and have ranked HP-UX 11i first in key categories important to mission-critical environments:
  • Best channel partner program
  • Availability and reliability features
  • Observed availability
  • Operating system quality
  • Best initial quality—no DOAs
  • Observed, real-world performance
  • System management suite
  • Real-world manageability
  • Operating system features
» View the customer preference results for HP-UX 11i vs. Solaris
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity servers is a winning combination that delivers better return on your IT investment. Customers requiring UNIX for business processing and decision support workloads demand the robustness and mission-critical virtualization of HP-UX 11i for enterprises of all sizes.

Year-over-year HP-UX 11i momentum—due to v3 advantages

Mission-critical availability: HP-UX 11i leadership in categories integral to mission-critical environments translates to increased availability and less risk of downtime.

System management and observed performance: HP-UX 11i leadership in categories related to management, functionality, and performance means increased IT operating efficiency and productivity.

Gabriel Consulting Group has published a series of three reports based on the results of its most recent UNIX Vendor Preference Survey. The annual survey asks IT professionals to share insights on data center challenges, industry trends, and technology and support solutions from three major UNIX server vendors.

These reports cover the following topics:

UNIX: Alive, well, and strategic   

Based on the 2008/09 UNIX user preference study, Gabriel Consulting Group concludes that UNIX is more strategic than ever to data centers. The paper explores areas where UNIX usage is surging, and the solid evidence that virtualisation pays off in IT benefits, and is on the rise in mission-critical UNIX deployments.

Gabriel notes mission-critical UNIX categories where HP-UX 11i outscored AIX and Solaris, including Observed Performance, Observed Availability, Real-World Manageability, and Best Initial Quality.

Note: Gabriel survey respondents reside primarily in the US, with about 1/3 residing in Europe.

Customers laud UNIX availability

HP scored significant wins in the RAS sections of the survey. This report discusses how availability is a key benefit of the UNIX platform and how it is becoming even more important in this age of virtualization. The report presents HP’s survey wins in availability, reliability, and system quality and puts them into competitive context. It also discusses how specific HP hardware and software enhancements have made the Integrity platform the industry leader in availability.

HP ups Integrity performance            

HP moved from third to first in the ‘Observed Performance’ survey category. This report discusses the importance of system performance in the UNIX market and how performance means more than just benchmarks. It also discusses the major hardware and software enhancements that have fueled Integrity’s surge in this category.

2008/09 UNIX survey Webcasts

Dan Olds, principal analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group, is the guest on two HP Webcasts that will focus on the UNIX market, Integrity systems, and how customers perceive the Integrity brand versus the competition. Get the story behind the story and receive Dan’s 2009 report summarizing the 2008 customer survey results.

HP-UX 11i: mission-critical UNIX

UNIX systems often carry the bulk of mission-critical computing in modern data centers. This Webcast discusses why UNIX systems are strategically important and why Integrity systems are among the best choices for critical UNIX applications.
We’ll also share data on how real-world customers regard HP-UX 11i on a variety of mission-critical attributes.
Non-HP site

Real-world performance: more than just benchmarks

Although global benchmarks get a lot of publicity, they bear little or no resemblance to what customers are running in their own data centers.
What matters to customers is not feeds and speeds on an artificial workload, but ‘usable performance’—performance that comes into play each and every day.
This Webcast discusses recent survey-based research showing how UNIX customers rate HP-UX 11i against competitors in terms of performance. We also discuss in detail recent enhancements that deliver even better performance from HP-UX 11i.

Biography of Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting Group

Dan Olds understands both business and technology and, more important, how technology can be applied to solve business problems. Olds has been in the high-tech arena for 15 years, having held significant positions at Cray, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. He founded Gabriel Consulting Group in 2001. His varied background gives Dan insight into how technology can be used to make business more efficient, effective, and profitable.

Olds was among the first technologists to closely study IT Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), virtualization, and server consolidation. With Gabriel Consulting Group, he has completed a number of groundbreaking studies on these industry trends and their impact on operational efficiency. He closely follows advancements in high performance computing, software, and worldwide technology development.

Olds is a frequent speaker at industry events, and contributes articles to technology publications. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Computerworld, eWeek, InformationWeek, CNET and a host of other tech news sources. Olds holds an MBA in finance and marketing.

Biography of Brian Cox, Senior Director, Software Planning and Marketing, HP

Brian Cox is the Senior Director of Software Planning and Marketing for Business Critical Systems at the Hewlett-Packard Company. In this role he is responsible for product planning, product management, and product marketing for the HP-UX 11i, Windows, Linux, and OpenVMS operating systems and associated virtualization, high availability, storage management, and development tool software for Integrity, Alpha, and HP 9000 servers.

In his HP career, Brian has managed the industry’s best selling UNIX servers, the industry’s highest-performing Windows and Linux servers, the first blade server from any major vendor, and multiple generations of x86, RISC, and Itanium-based servers. His products have earned numerous awards over the years from publications such as InfoWorld, Network World, IT Week, Byte and Windows NT Magazine.

Brian holds B.S. and MBA degrees from Santa Clara University.

Biography of Martin Whittaker, Vice President of Alliances, Performance and Solutions Engineering, HP

Martin Whittaker is Vice President of the Alliances, Performance and Solutions Engineering for the Enterprise Servers & Storage business unit at Hewlett Packard. His team is responsible for the performance and scalability of HP's server and storage solutions and for working with our ISV partners to develop industry-leading solutions for the Converged Infrastructure. The Converged Infrastructure is HP’s solution to enable companies to transform to a next-generation data center that can rapidly shift technology resources and deliver new services to meet changing business needs.

Previously, Martin was the Senior Director of Engineering in the Business Critical Servers Division of HP, responsible for the core of the HP-UX 11i operating system, for HP-UX 11i performance and scalability, and for the integration, quality, and delivery of HP-UX 11i operating environments.

Martin has been with HP for twenty-five years in a variety of technical and management positions in areas including storage, servers, I/O systems, performance and scalability, and operating systems.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham in England and a Master's degree in Microprocessor Engineering and Digital Electronics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in England.

*Results from Gabriel Consulting Group 2008/09 Unix Vendor Preference Survey. Survey period covered 12/08-03/09 with 266 survey respondents representing small, medium and large enterprise data centers.