Total Cost Of Ownership - Compaq 112726-001 - ProLiant - 6500 White Paper

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Focusing on the total cost of ownership by giving customers the best price:performance value
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and the broadest array of possible solutions available for deployment
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Engineering Manageability
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Compaq designs extensive manageability into its products, enabling fault prediction and alerting
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detailed asset and configuration inventory, and performance monitoring. More than 1,000
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parameters are instrumented, all monitored by Compaq Insight Management Agents. These
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range of operating environments including Novell NetWare, Microsoft Windows NT and
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Windows 95, OS/2, and SCO UNIX and UnixWare.
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Compaq Insight Manager
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Compaq Insight Manager (CIM) is an intelligent management tool that constantly monitors and
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analyzes critical information for every Compaq server. It brings information to the customers and
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. . gives them the tools to respond. Customers can quickly and easily address problems before they
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become disasters–preventing downtime and costly data loss while saving customers time and
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. . legwork. Compaq's Insight Manager is also based on a 32-bit architecture, making it scalable
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and powerful enough to manage thousands of systems from a single console.
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Compaq Insight Manager is a key component of the Integration Management process. CIM
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supports this process through the Integration Server Maintenance feature, which lets customers
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compare their current software versions with the latest software available from Compaq, and then
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recommends key updates. Customers can download the updates to their Integration Server, a
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central software repository, via the Internet, by modem, or from CD, so they have continual access
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to the latest versions but manage upgrades to meet their needs. And soon, Compaq will use the
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Internet to offer proactive, automatic notification of the latest revisions of Compaq software,
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firmware, drivers, and technical support information relevant to customers' specific network
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environment.
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Comprehensive Server Management Includes Partnerships
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Compaq is committed to adhering to industry standards and building strong partnerships with
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. . leading software vendors to ensure that its systems are the most manageable in a customer's
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environment.
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Compaq Insight Manager gives customers the flexibility to manage Compaq servers from leading
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enterprise management platforms like OpenView for HP-UX and NetView for AIX. The CIM
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modules extend OpenView and NetView capabilities for managing Compaq systems. Also, to
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enhance existing management capabilities, Compaq has developed Compaq Systems Management
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Partnerships with industry-leading vendors such as BMC Software, Boole & Babbage, Cabletron
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Systems, Seagate EMS, and Tivoli Systems. These partners have enhanced their products to
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integrate Compaq Insight Manager information, making Compaq systems the most manageable
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in a customer's environment.
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Total cost of ownership

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As part of its value-add integration, Compaq is committed to high ownership satisfaction and
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lower cost of ownership. The total cost of ownership is the cost of the entire life cycle of IT
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solutions required to create a business advantage and includes not only acquisition price but
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additional factors such as support, administration, and technology refreshing costs. Compaq is
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committed to addressing the cost concerns of its customers across the entire life cycle of the
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solution. Compaq's value model has always been based on reducing the cost of computing
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