Migrating from Sun
Business drivers
- Running 4-to 8-year-old hardware in distributed environments with high support costs and low average utilisation
- Need to upgrade to the latest version of SAP, Oracle database, and other applications
- Looking to reduce long-term dependence on the old Sun or resisting growing control from Oracle
- Migrating from mission-critical SPARC to other UNIX platforms
- Upgrading end-of-life, high-end systems to the M-series.
The questions to ask
Current environment
- Are their SPARC servers three years old or older?
- How has the age of their systems impacted support, maintenance, and management costs?
- Are they currently using HP servers in other areas (e.g., Integrity, HP 9000, ProLiant, or Blades)?
- Do they currently use Linux for business applications?
Oracle/Sun concerns
- Do they have concerns regarding Oracle product strategies with respect to their Sun infrastructure?
- Are they getting the support they require from Oracle?
Application upgrades
- Have they upgraded to the latest version of SAP?
- Have they facedany challenges with the upgrade or in production?
- What other business applications are they planning to upgrade?
- What home-grown applications do they maintain?
- What is their strategy for continuing support or porting them to new systems?
IT initiatives
- How is IT sprawl—physical, virtual, or both—affecting their data centre?
- What has been done to address it?
- Are they looking to deliver shared services or build a private cloud?
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