Business System Evolution

Steelcase revitalizes its SAP® environment and captures a 25% performance boost at 40% less cost using HP Integrity Superdome 2 Servers and HP-UX 11i v3

"The HP Integrity Superdome 2 architecture and HP-UX 11i v3 give us even more performance and flexibility to drive up resource utilization, further leverage our IT investment, and reduce costs by moving more of our manufacturing facilities into those SAP® modules."
—Bob Krestakos, CIO, Steelcase Inc.

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Transitioning to HP Integrity servers running HP-UX will yield tremendous benefits to your business. A mission-critical Converged Infrastructure continues the leadership of HP 9000 servers and AlphaServers by delivering:

• Increased server reliability 4.5x with Superdome 2 Crossbar fabric
• Automated provisioning of resources in minutes with Matrix Operating Environment
• Industry’s #1¹ blade platform
• Mission-critical service levels with the first mission-critical Converged Infrastructure
• The highest levels of availability with HP Serviceguard
• Outstanding security for infrastructure and data protection with compliance validation
• The most sophisticated virtualization technologies, including HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMs)
• New and more flexible server bladeswith the industry’s first 8 socket UNIX blade
• ISV partnerships from design to implementation
• Long-term investment protection with 100+ innovations to ensure global business continuity
• Unified infrastructure management tools
• World-class HP service and support

The new economics of mission-critical computing means lower TCO, lower downtime costs, and lower cost of acquisition

Get 2x productivity and payback in less than a year

Average results of customers surveyed by IDC who implemented HP Insight Control for server lifecycle management

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Provision application infrastructure in 108 minutes rather than days or months

Time elapse begins with logging into HP BladeSystem Matrix self-service portal and ends in up-and-running status with configured 2-tiered application. Includes initiation (5 min), approval (5 min), infrastructure provisioning (38 min), and installation (60 min).

Improve your infrastructure’s recovery time by up to 80%

Manually recovering the server information, reconnecting the storage, and bringing up the environment would take approximately one hour. HP compared this to the 5-7 minutes to accomplish the same objective per server using the automated process facilitated by HP Insight Recovery. This is a performance improvement of 80%