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HP has the right solution to meet your needs―offering both flexibility and choice. Our tailored 'Migration Assessments' can provide details on options, for instance, migration to HP-UX 11i, Linux, or Windows OS. In many cases, such as moving from SPARC or POWER environments, tremendous cost savings can be achieved by adopting a 'split tier' environment of ProLiant and Integrity servers running a mix of Windows, Linux and HP-UX 11i.
HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity
Advanced mission-critical environments

Why choose this path?
You want to consolidate older IBM environments or upgrade applications and databases while maintaining service levels.
How do you win?
With HP-UX 11i on HP Integrity servers you can preserve UNIX skills and software assets, improve utilisation, and simplify and automate management and processes all in a safer, more agile UNIX mission-critical operating environment.
Who else is winning?
Stile Pavimenti Legno
Stile Pavimenti Legno, a leading provider of wood flooring in Italy, needed to increase the efficiency of their production to keep pace with increasing sales growth. They determined by transferring their ERP suite from an IBM p630 platform to an HP Integrity rx2660 server running HP-UX 11i v3, they could increase the speed and reliability of their infrastructure.
Linux on HP Proliant
Standardise software/hardware infrastructure by deploying with Linux on standard-based servers

Why choose this path?
You want to drive down costs by migrating to a robust, UNIX-like open source operating system with industry-standard platforms. Linux on HP ProLiant G6 servers, are the market-leading, energy-efficient, cost-effective platform with outstanding price and performance.
How do you win?
A new Linux-based HP ProLiant server can pay for itself in as little as 6 months. HP provides rigorous Linux QA testing, ProLiant Support Pack for manageability, and an Insight Control suite for Linux. And our long-term relationship with both RedHat and Novell include strong executive commitment, strategic engineering collaboration and product support and delivery.
Who else is winning?
Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop helps educate kids online with HP ProLiant server blades and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The Sesame Workshop IT staff previously managed 90 or so servers, including IBM x86 and Sun Fire servers, multiple operating systems and two database environments—Oracle and DB2. Moving to a single hardware platform and operating system provided a 30% reduction in hardware costs and 77% savings in total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to their previous mixed Sun & IBM environment.
Windows on HP Integrity or Proliant
Standardised software and hardware infrastructure with Windows on standard-based servers.

Why choose this path?
You want to move to a more industry-standard platform. HP’s dominance in the Windows market and the 25-year strategic relationship with Microsoft includes engineering, testing, delivering, and supporting Windows environments.
How do you win?
HP is the number one platform of choice for Windows Server solutions, according to IDC’s February 2009 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. And HP enables backward compatibility with UNIX via native UNIX tools for Windows. Also, you are an SAP ERP 4.6 user, moving to the next version of SAP will entail as complex a migration as moving to a totally new platform. Taking advantage of the cost-savings and stability of a Windows ProLiant solution is a wise business choice.
Who else is winning?
TTX Company
TTX Company owns and operates about 210,000 rail cars used by the leading railroads in the United States and Canada. The TTX motto is 'Forward thinking,' and the motto applies as much to TTX’s approach to technology as its cars. To increase cost-efficiency, the company migrated from an IBM mainframe to a Windows®-based open system environment with virtualisation. Since the migration, TTX achieved a 50% lower TCO, a 12-fold increase in deployment speed, and 69% reduction in floor space.