This illustration depicts the business value of deploying open source software for Web services versus competitors' offerings.
HP-UX 11i delivers the powerful combination of reduced risk and improved return on IT investment!
For purposes of this illustration, a U.S.-based manufacturing company plans to move from HP 9000 systems running HP-UX 11i version 1 to HP Integrity servers with HP-UX 11i version 2, consolidating servers and applications. Objectives are to reduce capital cost, reduce IT infrastructure operating costs, and improve business agility. What follows is a simple illustration using typical industry values. Download a complete sample report at the bottom of this page. Your results will, of course, vary. Let's get together and see what we come up with! HP stands ready to run a similar analysis with you in the Americas and Europe - no charge, click here.
The customer asks HP consulting and integration (C&I) consultants to do an assessment and implementation plan for using the HP-UX 11i Open Source Reference Architecture. The consultant recommends the following for optimal security and utilization, minimizing risk and maximizing IT return:
Run HP-UX Web Server Suite in a secure resource partition dedicated to running transactions outside the company. That compartment then talks "by HP-UX 11i security containment rule" to secure resource partitions that are dedicated to internal transactions, isolated for security.
Use Red Hat Directory Server to authenticate all users and provide access control and identity management to various applications and processing.
Configure HP-UX 11i sub-CPU partitions, Workload Manager, and hard partitions for secure resource partitions. Modeling this functionality shows server utilization increased by 55% versus not running the virtualization software listed here.
Run Java with HP-UX 11i on the HP Integrity server since it shows substantial TCP-C performance over competitive machines.
Take advantage of HP's instant capacity utility pricing to reduce HP Integrity servers' costs by roughly half. Combining the increased utilization with utility pricing produces a 42% savings in fixed asset costs.
Substituting JBoss for BEA application server and MySQL for Oracle provides additional software savings of 14% or $684K during the 5-year analysis period, in licenses and support costs. Overall IT costs are reduced 36% with a project savings of $1.1M
Business operating costs decreased by 18% or $257K with contributions from reduced unplanned downtime and security impacts. Reduced facilities, IT operations and IT administration are accounted for under reduced IT costs. Business strategic costs from better business agility and time to solution contribute $1.7M or 25%. Total project benefits from using the OSRA, its products and services along with the superior server utilization and management from HP-UX 11i/Integrity shows in this business case a $3M benefit or 27% better TCO than the competitive UNIX solution with commercial software. By moving from the existing IT infrastructure to the new OSRA software, servers and HP-UX 11i operating environment, the customer is expected to achieve an internal rate of return IRR of 185% with a net present value savings of $3.3M. Payback is 6 months.
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