PALO ALTO, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 1, 2010 — HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that the number of global companies replacing Sun and IBM systems with more flexible HP solutions offering a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) is rising.
HP also is providing new tools and support services to simplify and streamline the migration process for clients.
A recent research study showed clients are rating HP Integrity servers and the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system higher than comparable solutions from both IBM and Sun on several mission-critical computing criteria, including Observed Performance and Observed Availability.(1) In fact, over a three-year span, HP-UX 11i v3 running on HP Integrity BL870c delivers a 23 percent lower TCO than IBM AIX 6.1 running on IBM BladeCenter JS23.(2)
Three examples of companies that have migrated their data center infrastructures from Sun or IBM to HP Integrity servers running the HP-UX operating system are:
Kuhmo Tires, a leading South Korean tire manufacturer, needed to update its legacy IBM mainframe to support its growing business. “The existing mainframe-based system was inadequate to support the challenges faced in a rapidly changing business environment,” said Seung-gook Cho, department head, Kuhmo Tires. “We examined and benchmarked major server vendors’ products and selected the HP Integrity Superdome and HP-UX.”
Bernalillo County, the most populous county in New Mexico, sought to substitute its mainframe environment with an infrastructure that could improve the reliability of its applications, maximize efficiencies and reduce costs. “When Bernalillo County needed to provide additional services to residents, we turned to HP to provide an infrastructure that could help us cut costs and implement applications faster,” said Paul Roybal, chief information officer, Bernalillo County. “By deploying Integrity server blades with HP-UX, we decreased the number of physical servers, improved overall performance as well as reduced power and cooling requirements by 40 percent.”
VTB Bank, one of Russia’s largest banks, chose an HP-UX solution to upgrade its Sun servers running Solaris. The company migrated to HP Integrity Superdome and HP Integrity blade servers running HP-UX and was able to improve efficiency and facilitate service delivery. “HP Integrity Superdome is a highly scalable platform for mission-critical workloads – a platform that helps us maintain a common Oracle database, while consolidating the core banking systems of our branches,” said Dmitry Nazipov, chief information officer, VTB Bank.
New tools, support and incentives enable clients to hurdle migration challenges
To help ease the migration process, clients transitioning to HP can take advantage of new solutions that:
- Accelerate and automate the migration process and further reduce the TCO of transitioning Solaris-based applications to HP-UX with HP’s newly enhanced Solaris to HP-UX Porting Kit. This porting environment serves as a resource especially designed for enterprise businesses to drastically reduce the time and effort to be up and running on HP-UX.
- Simplify the porting of software from Solaris to HP Integrity servers while enabling developers to identify as well as resolve compatibility issues between HP-UX and Solaris. The new Solaris Software Transition Kit includes a collection of tools and documents tailored to migrating Solaris applications to HP-UX.
- Further reduce costs with a special offer for clients who purchase HP-UX 11i v3 and support between now and July 31, 2010. With this offer, organizations can receive an HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure and HP Integrity BL860c server blade starter kit at no additional cost.(3)
Clients benefit from proven migration experience
HP has more than 25 years of experience enabling customers to migrate mission-critical applications to environments that best suit their needs. Client benefits include:
- Increased confidence with comprehensive guidance throughout the migration process with HP Migration Services.
- Flexible financing solutions and sale-leaseback services from HP Financial Services, the company’s leasing and life cycle asset management services subsidiary.
- Driving business growth and innovation by modernizing outdated applications using HP Applications Modernization services and cutting-edge visualization tools.
More information about how HP-UX compares to IBM’s UNIX AIX is available at www.hp.com/go/hpuxvsaix.
About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com
(1) “2008 UNIX Vendor Preference” survey results, Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting Group, September 2009.
(2) “The business value of HP-UX 11i v3,” Alinean Inc., November 2009.
(3) To qualify for this offer, a customer may not have purchased any of the following products in the three years prior to offer redemption, as demonstrated by invoice history and service contracts: HP 9000 servers, HP AlphaServer, HP NonStop servers, HP Integrity servers and the HP ProLiant DL785 Server. Offer valid until July 31, 2010.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any statements concerning expected development, performance or market share relating to products and services; any statements regarding anticipated operational and financial results; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events; the execution and performance of contracts by HP and its customers, suppliers and partners; the achievement of expected operational and financial results; and other risks that are described in HP’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2010 and HP’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to HP’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2009. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
© 2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.
The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
Contact:
HP
Michael Herrera, 720-560-3890
Email Contact
HP
Media Hotline, 866-266-7272
Email Contact
www.hp.com/go/newsroom
or
Burson-Marsteller
for HP
Lee Figora, 312-596-3415
Email Contact