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Provide customers with a cost-efficient, highly available pay-as-you-grow server and storage model
Approach Offer virtualized servers and storage using HP ProLiant server blades, the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN, and VMware Projected business benefits 75% reduction in customer c . ost per server ($600USD per month reduced to $150) . High availability offered at no extra cost . Twice as many virtual machines per host enabled by G6 server without power increase . 29 times more servers per rack at half the power (virtualization with blades vs. rack-mounted/ standalone) Projected IT improvements . Four times faster time to value (server deployment in one hour vs. four hours)
. 10-fold boost in CPU utilization (50-75%, up from less than 5%) . 95% of server administration carried out remotely . Two to six hours per month of downtime avoided through SAN changes on the fly
If you were adding managed servers and storage to your business, how would you want to buy the
technology?
1. Forecast the capacity you might need in the future. Buy it now. Hope you grow into it. 2. Buy only the capacity you need now. Add as you grow, and pay for what you add when you add it.
Of course, you'd want the second choice, and you're not alone. Portland, Oregon-based Opus Interactive, a managed services provider, has been able to offer the pay-as-you-grow managed server and storage model over the past four years using virtualization on the HP BladeSystem and HP LeftHand P4000 SAN.
As a result, the company has seen its customer base expand by 50%.
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