Industry Standard Servers Infrastructure Refresh Why?

HP Proliant Generation Transition Launch Date ServerGen Name Feature ChangeCustomer Qualification Required Customer Benefit (versus G4) 29 th March All 2 socket Intel G6 MINOR - Intel Xeon 5600 (Westmere) LOW - 20:1 consolidation - 97% power saving 29 th March All 2 socket AMD G7 MAJOR - AMD Opteron 6100 (Magny-Cours) - New chipset, memory, I/O - iLO3 Management HIGH - 23:1 consolidation - 96% power saving - 800% faster iLO 11 th May DL360 & DL380 G7 MEDIUM - Intel Xeon 5600 (Westmere) - iLO3 Management - Additional dual port NIC in DL360 MEDIUM -20:1 consolidation - 97% power saving - 800% faster iLO 21 st June 2 socket Intel Blade 2 & 4 socket AMD blade DL580, DL585 DL980 (new) G7 MAJOR -- Intel Xeon 7500 (Nehalem EX) - AMD 6100 (Magny-Cours) - iLO3 Management HIGH - 2 socket Intel & AMD blade with CNA. - 9x performance increase withXeon :1 consolidation - 97% power saving - 800% faster iLO Sept 4 socket Intel blade G7 MAJOR -- Converged Network Adaptor -- Intel Xeon 7500 (4 socket) - iLO3 Management HIGH -- 90% reduction in network hardware - 20:1 consolidation - 97% power saving - 800% faster iLO

Regenerate G4 to G to 1

Regenerate G4 to G6 2010/G7 20 to 1 14 to 1 Intel Xeon 5600

Regenerate G4 to G7 23 to 1 14 to 1 AMD Opteron 6100

Save 95% reduction in number of servers 97% reduction in energy costs 383% reduction in support costs 95% reduction in licence costs

27x More compute capability in the same power envelope

HP BladeSystem 32% reduction in energy costs 50% reduction in space needed 80% reduction in labour/management costs 41% reduction in hardware costs Source: Alinian Analysis of savings over 5 years in a inner city public sector organisation. 48 x DL360 quad core VS. 48 x BL460C quad core with virtual connect

$48,300 saving per 100 users over 3 years 6 month ROI