'Scale-up' your sales ambition with HP DL980, the 'Giant ProLiant'
You’re used to selling HP ProLiant so make sure you’re taking advantage of HP’s ‘Giant ProLiant’ - DL980, the eight-socket server built to reliably handle the largest x86 enterprise environments with confidence.
The HP DL980 G7 server presents the ideal opportunity for consolidating x86 server environments – providing a single workhorse that increases application uptime, improves performance and lowers costs. So, instead of selling multiple x86 ProLiant servers, take a look at the greater benefits for you and your customers from delivering a DL980 solution:
- Scale-Up - DL980 helps consolidate business-critical application environments while reducing complexity and cost, it’s architected for balanced scaling, self-healing resiliency and breakthrough efficiency. Scale-Up cost advantages include:
- 47% lower 3-year TCO – with the same performance
- 50% lower initial application configuration costs
- 50% lower database administration costs
- Up to 99% reduction in licences
- Up to 96% reduction in power and cooling costs
- Triple datacentre capacity. More +
- Enterprise Virtualisation – much less expensive than replacing physical servers on a 1 for 1 basis, virtualising with DL980 means reduced TCO via simplified management, reduced energy consumption and smaller total transaction costs
- DL980 Linux – HP has made Linux a priority, providing platform and application certifications, patches, updates, tech support and continuous innovation for Linux environments. The release of 2.6 Linux kernel means you can now scale confidently with Linux on the DL980
- Strong incentives – talk to your HP team in Avnet about the healthy margins and compelling commercial incentives now available for HP DL980, specifically around Partner For Growth (PFG) and point incentives.
- Sell the DL980 into x86 ProLiant environments
- Sell the DL980 into legacy Solaris environments
- Sell the DL980 into mission critical environments
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