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Improving Availability and Lowering TCO With HP Integrity Servers and OpenVMS: Comparing Mid-Range UNIX Cluster TCO, Availability, and Business Value

Overview To help organizations understand which operating system and server infrastructure offers the best business value, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis was utilized. When making a purchasing decision, initial procurement price is certainly important - selecting the lowest cost asset in order to save the company money, but studies have shown that if one consider the cost of the asset from initial purchase through deployment, maintenance, support, management, and ultimately to retirement, less than 20% of the costs are for the initial hardware and software investment. TCO analysis helps decision makers make more intelligent investments by analyzing the total cost of the asset over its useful life.

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Publisher	Alinean	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2005	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	ROI - TCO

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