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.
Advanced mission-critical environments
Why choose this path?
You want to consolidate older SPARC 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? AAR
AAR’s Oracle-based employee portal, 'myAAR,' was running on a two-tiered configuration consisting of Sun Solaris and Linux servers. As the portal became an integral part of everyday business at AAR, performance became sluggish due to the limitations of the two-tiered platform. By consolidating 'myAAR' on HP Integrity blade servers and HP-UX 11i v3, portal responsiveness has improved dramatically, while IT enjoyed the benefits of a much simpler, more manageable infrastructure.
Standardise software/hardware infrastructure by deploying 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. And due to inherent operating system similarities, Linux is a natural choice if you use Solaris. HP provides rigorous Linux QA testing, ProLiant Support Pack for manageability, Insight control suite for Linux, and a Solaris-to-Linux porting kit. 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.
Standardise software/hardware infrastructure by deploying 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, if 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? Microsoft
Microsoft built a new financial reporting Web portal using SQL Server 2008 and an HP ProLiant Intel Xeon processor-based server in a virtualised environment. Results of the new reporting system included running a report in 2 hours that used to take 6 hours, and delivering faster and easier access to critical data.
