What is HP's Sun Complete Care program all about?
The program was launched earlier this year. HP has been planning to replace
Sun servers and has been successful in doing that. We build a lot of expertise
in terms of Solaris to HP racks migration and Solaris to Solaris XDV6 migration.
HP is a certified service partner for Solaris and Sun cluster environment. But
after Sun's acquisition, their customers started to accelerate migration
projects. The key business drivers for that were to reduce costs in
infrastructure, increase power efficiency, performance, and reduce maintenance
costs.
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| Herbert Zwenger
VP and GM, Business Critical Systems, Technology
Solutions Group, HP |
What are the key factors that are driving mainframe customers to migrate
from the legacy systems?
The overall TCO, maintenance, and software costs are growing higher. These are
the key factors that are pushing customers to shift from their legacy systems.
The other criteria where customers are looking to move out from the legacy
systems from an Indian perspective involve two major dynamics that are relevant
while selecting a server or an infrastructure. In terms of TCO, customers were
looking for acquisition and maintenance costs. But today people are also looking
at the footprint of the software and also the power and cooling capacity. When
these two dynamics come into play, the costs for these are substantially higher
than the acquisition costs. That is where migration from legacy to new
generation platforms is taking place.
Has recession impacted the non-x86 server businesses?
According to IDC data, there is a slight decline in both x86 and non x86 server
businesses. The x86 market is about $28 billion while the non-x86 market, which
are EPIC risk and mainframes, is about $26.5 billion. In India also there has
been a slight decline in terms of investments for both x86 and non-x86 markets,
but the critical projects and critical decisions are still going on. In critical
projects customers are making decisions faster, since they feel that if they can
complete the project during the recession they will get a better cost structure.
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(Source: DQ)