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Old SPARC customers finding Cost, Flexibility, and Management improvement with new Integrity Servers

bradley.porter| May 18, 2010
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I have been watching deals begin to come in from the field and channel partners, and I must say that there are many enterprises out there looking to improve on their existing legacy Sun SPARC environment.  The are excited abou the new Integrity blades offering which have recently come out, which cover the breadth of computing needs from the low- to the high-end.  Take a look at how HP Integrity servers deliver the first mission-critical converged infrastructure and at the high end how  Blade architecture halves footprint of HP Superdome systems.


I went out and ran another total cost of ownership scenario that tool legacy SPARC servers and migrated them to Integrity Blades, using the Alinean BladeSystem migration tool.  I had the existing legacy Sun SPARC environment as the starting point. The tool has those systems all running SPARC III or SPARC IV servers, typical of the enterprise looking to do a tech refresh to support future growth. 


The setup was as follows:


2 x 144 core high end SPARC server, 4 x 32 cored midrange SPARC server, 12 x 4 core low-end SPARC server (total SPARC cores = 464)


The tool came back with the following target environment:


2 x HP Integrity BL890c i2 1.73GHz 24MB cache servers (total core = 64)


That is a pretty amazing result.  The number of cores would be reduced by 86%.  3-year Cumulative TCO Savings would be $20.2 million.  The ROI would be 2711.5%.  Check it out yourself; the results can be repeated.


Now, I have heard the argument from several others that those kinds of results could be seen if you moved from old SPARC to any new, modern platform.  Well, maybe, and maybe not.  What we are talking about here is moving to the world's first Mission Critical Convergec Infrastructure. That means that the savings is coming from more than just faster hardware and lower software license costs.  It comes from the creation of a pool of hardware, storage, networking and software resources all managed from one pane of glass.  Workloads are not just virtualized, but in actuallity managed within a pool of resources.  It is pretty exciting to me to see HP take the next step in IT infrastructure. 

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