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Calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO), build your own BladeSystem or read the many whitepapers and guides that explain how an HP BladeSystem can benefit your business.

Total Cost of Ownership

» HP BladeSystem TCO Calculator (Tool)
Compare the acquisition and operational costs of an
HP BladeSystem versus an equivalent rack-mount solution

» Forecasting TCO for Initial Deployments of Server Blades (Analyst view, 164KB, PDF)
IDC report on why TCO analyses favours blade servers over rack-optimised systems for both capital and operating expenses.

» Replacing 'racked, stacked and wired' (Article, 783KB, PDF)
Learn how HP BladeSystem allows administrators to spend less time managing the environment and more time improving it.

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Buying, Deploying and Managing

» Getting up and running (Weekly comment, 21KB, PDF)
According to industry analysts like Gartner and IDC, hardware often spends several months sitting in its box...

» Choosing your Shorty (Weekly comment, 60KB, PDF)
Choosing the right server configuration is often seen as being more luck than science...

» Eight steps to build a BladeSystem (Brochure, 478KB, PDF)
A guide to choosing the right BladeSystem infrastructure solution for your business

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Solutions

» Modernizing IT with a flexible, high-performance application and transaction infrastructures (Brochure, 104KB, PDF)
Today, the trend is towards using web-based applications to meet ever increasing demands

» HP ProLiant Sizer for Citrix Presentation Server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services (Tool)
Automated tool that helps determine the size and scope of a server environment running Citrix Presentation Server

» HP reference configuration for virtualization: HP ProLiant c-Class half-height servers and VMware Infrastructure 3 (White paper, 1246KB, PDF)
Reference configuration for HP c-Class BladeSystem running VMware Infrastructure 3

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