Bangkok--4 Aug--Hill & Knowlton Thailand
Customers transitioning to HP report savings of up to 80 percent in hardware costs and 60 percent in server maintenance
HP today announced a new program to support the increasing number of Sun customers looking to transition to a more cost-effective and stable server and storage platform.
HP’s Sun Complete Care program(1) combines one of the industry’s broadest technology portfolios and the company’s highly experienced team of professionals with a wide range of transition and modernization services to drive value for customers.
More than 100 customers have chosen to migrate to HP server and storage platforms over the last six months to significantly improve the return on their investments. On average, Sun customers are paying up to 80 percent more in total cost of ownership (TCO) for Sun SPARC servers than customers using HP Integrity servers.(2) Many applications are also significantly more expensive to run on SPARC servers compared with HP servers. It costs 50 percent more per core to run Oracle’s database software on SPARC than on HP Integrity.(3)
Customers moving to an HP environment can reap the benefits of the decades of experience HP and its partners have in helping minimize costs for customers. Making the transition easier than ever, the HP Sun Complete Care program offers customers a wide variety of specialized services, support programs and financial incentives. These include business case development, free TCO/ROI analysis and migration assessment services, design, migration and support to financing options. In addition, customers will benefit from trade-in opportunities on hardware and software as well as education programs.
Customers can realize significant cost savings by using an HP server platform while staying on the Solaris operating environment. They can also choose to migrate to Linux, HP-UX, or Microsoft Windows? on HP’s Integrity server line. To ease the transition, HP provides a single point of accountability for purchase and life cycle support of Solaris on HP servers. By choosing HP servers for Solaris-based applications, customers can receive superior performance, scalability and virtualization capabilities. With its industry-leading Technology Services, HP offers customers complete confidence to grow their businesses while also controlling costs.
Customers benefit from:
? Increased reliability, innovation and manageability with HP industry-standard servers
? Reduced transition and performance risk with HP’s services supporting the entire Solaris server, storage and network environment
? Reduced operational costs through the integration of Solaris 10 with HP management and usability tools on HP servers
HP leadership delivers results and ongoing peace of mind
According to first quarter 2009 IDC Server Tracker (4) data, HP leads the industry in several major categories in Asia Pacific (inc. Japan). This includes total server units shipped, x86 server measured in units and revenue as well as non-x86 UNIX and EPIC/RISC server revenues.
Further, HP’s broad systems and services portfolio addresses a wide variety of customer needs from small and midsize businesses to mission-critical, cloud and scale-out computing. “As I meet with Sun customers and partners, they are adamant that they need a more stable technology provider with proven solutions, long-term roadmaps and a solid future,” said Neal Clapper, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage and Servers, Technology Solutions Group, HP Asia Pacific and Japan. “By switching to HP, Sun customers will gain peace of mind, along with significant technology and return-on-investment advantages.”
HP expertise to transition and support customer environments
Customers can take advantage of HP’s Sun Complete Care program to reduce their total infrastructure costs. Program elements enable qualified customers to:
? Reduce costs and risks with free migration and TCO assessments
? Defer payments (up to 90 days) on new HP leases and take advantage of a zero-percent lease offer until Oct. 31
? Receive up to 15 percent trade-in discount when replacing Sun SPARC servers with HP Integrity servers or HP ProLiant DL785 servers
? Increase server reliability by trading up from running Solaris on Sun servers to running HP-UX v3 on HP Integrity servers and get up to 85 percent off HP-UX 11i with Solaris trade-in
? Receive up to 30 percent off training and support
? Benefit from Oracle? application migration assessment that helps to provide the appropriate strategy to upgrade Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle Siebel CRM applications
? Receive SAP infrastructure assessment that shows TCO improvements of migrating or upgrading existing ERP applications to high-performance server platforms
Take the TCO Challenge
HP offers customers a five-minute Sun TCO Challenge to find out the potential savings of transitioning to HP.
Additional information is available by contacting HP and its partners and at http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/us/en/migrate-to-hp/sun-complete-care.html