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HP Instant Capacity for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers

Perfect timing—respond quickly to market changes and ensure resiliency for business operations with HP Instant Capacity

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HP’s Instant Capacity for Integrity and HP 9000 servers builds on our strategy of synchronising business and IT to capitalise on change. By simultaneously driving down IT costs and increasing business agility, HP allows you to respond rapidly to changes in market conditions or customer demand.

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Why HP Instant Capacity Programme?

Achieve a better ROI by delaying payment for reserve capacity until it is actually used
Provision systems for average utilisation while enabling resources to be moved to servers to meet peak demands
Eliminate the need to provision temporary capacity for each server by pooling it among multiple servers
Increase server availability since reserve capacity is available in the unlikely event of a processor failure

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Instant Capacity

A two-step purchase model for HP Integrity and HP 9000 server hardware. Reserve processors, cell boards and memory are purchased at a fraction of their normal price and installed in your server – inactive but ready. When the reserve capacity is needed, permanent activation on a per-core basis can be purchased at the normal purchase price and you get five processing days per core with every processor that allows for instant activation and time for testing. The majority of the cost of the processors, HP-UX licensing and support costs is deferred until activation.

Temporary Instant Capacity

Prepares you for extra demands on your system when you order a 30 processing-day block of temporary capacity. With one TiCAP block, one processor can be activated for 30 days or two processors for 15 days. Processors may be activated and deactivated as often as needed, and usage is measured in 30-minute increments. The HP-UX operating environment temporary licence and support fees are included.

Global Instant Capacity

Permits hardware to be shared among servers – allowing resources to be deactivated in one system and activated in another to meet changing demands. Helps protect your mission-critical environment by making it more cost-effective to implement disaster recovery or high availability solutions. With GiCAP, usage rights for hardware resources in a system that becomes unavailable can be used to activate core resources in another Instant Capacity server.