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The Real Story about HP-UX 11i

 
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HP-UX 11i - something to smile aboutNovember 2009 — Looking for a reliable, stable UNIX® solution from a UNIX vendor that knows mission-critical solutions? If so, there are important facts you should consider about HP-UX 11i when compared to competing UNIX solutions.

Please consider the following:

Fact 1: The Gabriel Consulting Group Report of UNIX User Preferences for 2008-2009 rated HP-UX 11i above AIX and Solaris in important categories (see below):1


HP-UX 11i was rated above the competition in the following areas:
  • 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
  • Best channel partner programme

For more see the entire report, Gabriel Consulting Group: 2009 report of 2008-09 UNIX® User Preference.

Fact 2: HP invests in HP-UX 11i v3 to deliver advanced mission-critical functionality. This investment has allowed HP-UX 11i to surpass Solaris in ways that provide advantages to IT managers striving to deliver mission critical services. 2

HP-UX 11i leads in the area of higher utilization and throughput, integrated virtualization management, simplified single-pane-of-glass system management and integrated high availability.

For the technical details behind these points please see: www.hp.com/go/hpux11ivssolaris

Fact 3: A survey of 130 customers that collected operational data for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers running the HP-UX 11i found that two key benefits in upgrading to HP-UX 11i v3 were a 29% performance increase (on average) and a 56% reduction in unplanned downtime. 3

Additionally, reduced energy consumption as a result of consolidation was reported as between 29% and 70%.

For more detail see: TechWise Research Inc. reports: HP-UX 11i business value and cost savings in three scenarios

Fact 4: HP-UX 11i scores leadership and world-record performance benchmarks across the range of workloads, and across the family of HP Integrity servers.4

For more information see The Real Story about Real World Performance

Fact 5: UNIX customers have realized dramatic improvements with HP-UX 11i v3 on Integrity servers. 5

Here are some highlights from the HP-UX 11i testimonials at HP Integrity server case studies, HP-UX 11i section:
  • AAR Corporation migrated from HP 9000 to Integrity BL860c server blades running HP-UX 11i v3, doubling per minute transactions of the employee portal application and reducing server demand by 50 percent, supporting increased workloads.
  • Dubai World chose HP Integrity Superdome Servers running HP-UX 11i v3 for their Oracle E-Business Suite, fostering near-100% productivity during explosive economic and business growth; lowering licensing costs by 35% and reducing the number of required physical servers thereby minimizing space.
  • Citrix Systems upgraded to HP Integrity Superdome Servers running HP-UX 11i v3 to accommodate double-digit growth while reducing TCO and saved 85% in annual DR costs while achieving 5x performance improvements for SAP users and applications - with zero downtime.
  • NACF migrated off of a mainframe environment to HP Integrity Superdome Servers running HP-UX 11i v3 reducing new product development time from one month to five days, increasing processing capacity from 1800 transactions per second to 5800 and reducing IT costs with anticipated savings of $40 million USD annually.
  • Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. chose HP Integrity Superdome Servers running HP-UX 11i v3 for improved parallel processing logic, increasing speeds more than 30% while controlling TCO and guaranteeing maximum investment returns due to superior manageability. The SAP ERP database server doubled system stability and availability.

Bottom-line: HP is committed to being a leading provider of UNIX solutions. Our integrated-by-design approach ensures that all the technologies that deliver your mission-critical environment are engineered to work together. With more than 25 years of customer successes under our belt we can’t wait for the next 25. If you are looking for a reliable, stable UNIX solution from a UNIX vendor you can count on, look no further than HP and HP-UX 11i.

For more on HP-UX 11i please see: www.hp.com/go/hpux

1 Gabriel Consulting Group: 2009 report of 2008-09 UNIX® User Preference www.hp.com/go/gabrielonunix
2 www.hp.com/go/hpux11ivssolaris
3 TechWise Research, Inc.: Quantifying the Total Cost of Upgrade (TCU) for HP-UX Environments to HP-UX 11i v3, http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA2-4547ENW&cc=us&lc=en
4 Performance details can be found on: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-balanced-performance.html
5 View HP-UX 11i testimonials at: http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/w1/en/messaging/case-study-os.html#HP-UX11i

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