He claimed looking at it in terms of total cost of ownership (TCO) or return on investment (ROI) were no longer viable options. He said TCO was still a tool to be used. By moving the debate away from total cost of ownership, IT departments may find...
The system, an $8.4m HP Integrity Superdome with 64 1.5GHz Itanium 2 processors running HP's version of Unix, achieved a score of 1,008,000 transactions per minute on the TPC-C test. HP now holds the top three spots, with third place running a...
One part of that commitment will appear on 18 January when HP brings new top-end Itanium processors to midrange Integrity servers with eight or 16 processor sockets and to its high-end Integrity Superdome line with 32 or 64 sockets.
Now through a program called BigTux, HP is working to build support for 64-processor Integrity Superdome models into the two prevailing versions of Linux sold today from Red Hat and Novell, said Martin Fink, HP's vice-president of Linux.
One report, called TCO For Application Servers: Comparing Linux With Windows And Solaris, calculated the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an application server, including the cost of acquiring, implementing, and running it.
The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on HP Integrity servers, including the largest, 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers. HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels...