The enterprise of today depends increasingly on its IT capacity to remain agile and competitive. But new challenges such as mobility and big data analytics are putting pressure on IT to continually upgrade and enhance systems capacity to cope. At the same time, IT budgets are static or even shrinking.
Now, staying ahead in business depends increasingly on a substantially more powerful, intelligent compute environment that operates at a lower TCO. Andrew McNiven, HP South Africa industry standard servers category manager, explains that adding endless servers in a bid to address the enterprise's changing capacity needs has become an impractical and costly solution. It's time to think holistically, he says.
"In enterprise today, we need to look at the big picture," says McNiven. "Now the server needs to be seen as a component within a greater compute resource pool, which - as a whole - should be a tightly integrated, elastic utility delivering storage, networking and management at a lower total cost of ownership."
This changing environment set the scene for the development of HP's Proliant Gen 9 server portfolio, which enhances the game-changing capacity introduced with Gen 8. HP ProLiant Gen 9 servers span four architectures - blade, rack, tower and scale-out - and are designed to triple compute capacity across multiple workloads at a lower TCO, and improve workload performance of business-critical applications up to four times to drive business growth with unique HP storage, memory and networking innovations. Optimised for convergence, cloud and software-defined environments, Gen 9 is also more self-sufficient than any servers before. With the addition of the OneView converged management features to be released later this year, Gen 9 promises to accelerate IT service delivery and increase infrastructure provisioning up to 66 times.
McNiven says this paves the way for a compute environment delivering cost savings through lower power consumption, due to the need for fewer, more powerful servers; an associated drop in the necessary capex; and reduced spend on licenses and resources. Possibly more important than the cost saving this environment delivers are the revenue benefits, he notes. Through an advanced, collapsible/expandable compute resource, business receives a crucial competitive advantage by achieving a significantly faster time to market, he says. "CIOs are excited about what this means for them," says McNiven. "They can simply add VMs and get improved performance, while seeing cost reductions and simplifying the management of the compute environment, which results in massive time savings.
Substantiating TCO savings
Challenge/scenario | In numbers | Substantiation |
Lower TCO required | 62% TCO savings over three years including initial acquisition cost vs prior generation servers | Substantiation: 100 DL380 G6 servers consolidated down to 16 DL380 Gen9 enabling 62% TCO savings over three years including initial acquisition costs. There is also a potential reduction in monthly OPEX expenditure of over 80%. *includes Software support for vSphere and Windows. Also includes a 25% discount on hardware. |
Slow product and service delivery | Resource drain from IT systems inefficiency is reducing productivity; 77% of IT staff time and 50% of IT operations budget spent on day-to-day management versus innovation | Work cited: http://www.forrester.com/YearEnd+2013+IT+Budget+Benchmarks/fulltext/-/E-RES104963?aid=AST957303 |
IT is struggling to deliver a new style of IT on yesterday's infrastructure | On average, large IT projects run 45% over budget and 7% over time, while delivering 56% less value than predicted | Substantiation: Delivering large-scale IT projects on time, on budget, and on value, McKinsey October 2012. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/delivering_large-scale_it_projects_on_time_on_budget_and_on_value |
HP BladeSystem with HP OneView | Reduces IT acquisition costs by up to 41% | Substantiation: Based on a scenario of 320 BladeSystem servers managed by HP OneView over three years vs traditional management tools. IT acquisition costs in this scenarios for HP OneView are$2 606 752 and acquisition costs in a traditional environment is $4 441 728 = $1 834 976 savings or 41%. Source: 'see 'Copy of Copy of Fusion + Blades (6).xlsx'Fusion + Blades TCO and HP BladeSystem TCO calculator:http://alinean.austin.hp.com/roianalyst/Welcome.do. |
HP BladeSystem with HP OneView | Reduces data centre hardware costs by up to 50% | Substantiation: Based on a scenario of 320 BladeSystem servers managed by HP OneView over three years vs traditional management tools. Data centre hardware costs include Rack vs. Blades Power Infrastructure such as Power Infrastructure, whips and PDU's. Data centre costs in this scenario for HP OneView are $35 960 and in the traditional environment are $71,920 = $35 960 savings or 50%. Source: 'see 'Copy of Copy of Fusion + Blades (6).xlsx' Fusion + Blades TCO and HP BladeSystem TCO calculator: http://alinean.austin.hp.com/roianalyst/Welcome.do. |
Redefine compute economics - New innovations | Average 20% savings of the cost, energy, and carbon for cooling when compared to data center designs no economisers | Substantiation: The Green Grid. WP#41-Survey Results: Data Center Economizer Use. 2011. Web. http://www.thegreengrid.org/en/Global/Content/white-papers/WP41- SurveyResultsDataCenterEconomizerUse |
HP BladeSystem with HP OneView | BladeSystem with HP OneView delivers approximately 40% lower TCO | Substantiation: Based on a scenario of 320 BladeSystem servers managed by HP OneView over three years vs rack servers managed by traditional tools 17 September 2013 in Houston, TX USA. TCO in HP OneView in a HP BladeSystem environment is $3 379 740 and TCO in a traditional environment is $5 860 932= $2 481 192 savings or 42.30%. HP BladeSystem TCO calculator: http://alinean.austin.hp.com/roianalyst/Welcome.do. |
HP BladeSystem with HP OneView | Reduce data centre electricity usage by up to 13% (opex) | Substantiation: Based on a scenario of 320 BladeSystem servers managed by HP OneView over three years vs traditional management tools. Data centre opex costs include Rack vs. Blade Facilities Space and Rack vs. Blade Power and Cooling. Data center opex costs in this scenario for HP OneView are $254 113 and in the traditional environment are $290 937= $36 824 savings or 13%. Source: HP BladeSystem TCO calculator:http://alinean.austin.hp.com/roianalyst/Welcome.do. |
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