Migrate SAP Apps on Sun SPARC* Servers to HP BladeSystem* Matrix
Today’s challenging economic environment has made “data center transformation” a priority for enterprises, regardless of size. A global study conducted for HP by Hansa|GCR revealed that 84% of the organizations surveyed, driven by demands for lower costs and reduced business risks, were planning a data center transformation (DCT) project within the next 12 months.
An IT cost-reduction program that is poorly planned and executed can be disastrous, as it sacrifices business performance, employee productivity, and global security and yields only short-term gains. Inherent within DCT is the creation of business value. This does not mean only achieving cost savings, but it also clearly aligns the IT organization with business needs and priorities as these moves forward. Information Week 500 indicates that the Top 100 companies spend only 40% of their budget on innovations and the remaining 60% on ongoing maintenance.
Since HP’s own DCT, this ratio has been reversed; with 70% now spent on innovation and only 30% on maintenance (HP 2010). This white paper discusses the modernization of SAP* ERP landscapes in legacy Sun-based server environments. Modernizing a SAP environment by upgrading to SAP ECC 6.0, and migrating from older Sun SPARC platforms to a standards-based, consolidated, and virtualized HP BladeSystem Matrix* infrastructure, offers a powerful way to lower costs. Moving to a converged infrastructure can also improve the IT department’s ability to meet difficult Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This infrastructure helps to eliminate data sprawl caused by unneeded and redundant data, and transforms IT technology silos into shared pools of resources. Converged infrastructures also manage and automate operations for all application and infrastructure components. Building on the acquisitions of Compaq and RLX Technologies, and on the strength of the ProLiant range in the x86 market, HP has been a blade market leader throughout the past decade. Since the 2006 introduction of its latest chassis generation, HP has steadily asserted market leadership, and now sells more blade servers than the rest of the market combined. In 2011, HP once again is recognized as the leaders of blade server market.
Read the full Migrate SAP Apps on Sun SPARC* Servers to HP BladeSystem* Matrix paper.
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Migrate SAP Apps on Sun SPARC* Servers to HP BladeSystem* Matrix
Today’s challenging economic environment has made “data center transformation” a priority for enterprises, regardless of size. A global study conducted for HP by Hansa|GCR revealed that 84% of the organizations surveyed, driven by demands for lower costs and reduced business risks, were planning a data center transformation (DCT) project within the next 12 months.
An IT cost-reduction program that is poorly planned and executed can be disastrous, as it sacrifices business performance, employee productivity, and global security and yields only short-term gains. Inherent within DCT is the creation of business value. This does not mean only achieving cost savings, but it also clearly aligns the IT organization with business needs and priorities as these moves forward. Information Week 500 indicates that the Top 100 companies spend only 40% of their budget on innovations and the remaining 60% on ongoing maintenance.
Since HP’s own DCT, this ratio has been reversed; with 70% now spent on innovation and only 30% on maintenance (HP 2010). This white paper discusses the modernization of SAP* ERP landscapes in legacy Sun-based server environments. Modernizing a SAP environment by upgrading to SAP ECC 6.0, and migrating from older Sun SPARC platforms to a standards-based, consolidated, and virtualized HP BladeSystem Matrix* infrastructure, offers a powerful way to lower costs. Moving to a converged infrastructure can also improve the IT department’s ability to meet difficult Service Level Agreements (SLAs). This infrastructure helps to eliminate data sprawl caused by unneeded and redundant data, and transforms IT technology silos into shared pools of resources. Converged infrastructures also manage and automate operations for all application and infrastructure components. Building on the acquisitions of Compaq and RLX Technologies, and on the strength of the ProLiant range in the x86 market, HP has been a blade market leader throughout the past decade. Since the 2006 introduction of its latest chassis generation, HP has steadily asserted market leadership, and now sells more blade servers than the rest of the market combined. In 2011, HP once again is recognized as the leaders of blade server market.
Read the full Migrate SAP Apps on Sun SPARC* Servers to HP BladeSystem* Matrix paper.
