What lowers customers effective cost over three years, compared with the initial acquisition cost?
Marcello: Our Montecito servers get twice the power efficiency. Whether they’re implementing blades or Integrity servers or ProLiant, we optimize the power across the board. And with virtualization software, we believe that if they’re consolidating down from many, many servers, they’re going to actually get some cost-of-ownership benefits there as well. HP IT (department) is going from mega datacenters down to six. We’re buying thousands and thousands of Integrity servers. One (way HP is using them) is a shared application server, where they’re going to stack applications on top of our HP Integrity servers. If you’re a guy who owns a server and an application, you want to make sure you maintain control over that. It’s kind of like when you’re a kid: You don’t want to share with your brother or your sister. But (when using partitioning and virtualization technology) you can guarantee with Workload Manager or Global Workload Manager that you’re going to give that user the same level of r
