HP installed base modernisation
Business drivers
- Older HP systems on old release HP-UX software
- Worried about phase-out of HP 9000 systems
- Concerned about security, disaster tolerance or business continuity
- Having difficulty meeting workload requirements and service-level agreements
- Have budget and staff constraints and want to improve TCO and ROI
- Eliminating “non-standard” support costs and controlling ISV licensing and support costs
- Simplifying infrastructure and cutting management overhead
- Virtualising or consolidating
- Have IT resources that support multiple operating systems.
The questions to ask
Current environment
- Are their HP 9000 systems (or older Integrity servers) meeting their current business objectives?
- Do they have too many single-workload servers?
- Can their servers absorb unexpected peaks in demand?
Need for virtualisation
- What is their strategy for virtualising their mission-critical environment?
- How much of their strategy have they implemented?
- What’s been successful?
- What’s been challenging?
Need to modernise
- Is their team spending too much time on maintenance?
- Have they delayed or avoided application upgrades due to concerns about migration risks?
- Is hardware/software maintenance costing too much?
- Have they been successful delivering shared services or a private cloud?
Reclaim data centre space and power
- Is their IT environment running out of floor space because of legacy servers?
- Are their power requirements and costs continuing to increase?
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