*A family of tailored computing solutions to help
you automate the inventory, planning, and
management of IT resources enabling you to
efficiently and rapidly adapt compute power to
fluctuating business demands.*
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*Item* *Description*
*Key
Benefits*
Capacity on Demand service model helps
you establish world-class levels of
operational efficiency while speeding time
to market
Detailed utilization reporting tools help
you optimize the usage of your compute
capacity maximizing the return on your IT
investment
Increase customer satisfaction through
services by providing instant, secure, and
consistent response to your service level
agreement
Provides a range of computing solutions
tailored for your needs that deliver
computing resources, when you need them,
where you need them, at a predictable price
*What's New* *Pay-Per-Use Option for Capacity on Demand
Computing Program*
The COD project represents Compaq's
initiatives to focus on the Pay-Per-Use
paradigm. Systemic and financial information
along with high-level data flows are to be
identified in order to support the Computing
on Demand initiative, largely based on Server
On Demand (SOD) model. The data includes
transactions and reporting flows, as well as
back-end reporting and billing/invoicing
components.
The Compaq Pay-Per-Use (PPU) solution
offers the customer a flexible pricing plan
based on actual server usage. The customer
has the ability to turn servers in their
inventory on and off as demand dictates.
PPU is an integral part of the Computing on
Demand initiative.
In order to meet the needs of the
customers, Compaq intends to implement PPU
as one of the alternative solutions under
the Computing on Demand concept. This
solution will provide Compaq a competitive
edge that cannot be matched in the near
term.
PPU allows the customer the ability to
select a pricing plan in which the customer
is billed only for the computer usage
consumed. This requirement is based on
competitive demands to effectively serve
businesses.
Computing on Demand is a wide spectrum of
solutions to the market in three core space
schemes: Access, Capacity (servers and
storage) and Applications.
Access includes a PC utility convention
for both custom and packaged applications.
Capacity includes servers (ProLiant,
Alpha, and Himalaya) and storage as a
hardware solution, and private server
utilities, both custom and packaged
utilities.
Applications include MS Exchange, file
and print.
*Program Server Pay-Per-Use Option for On-Demand
Summary* Computing Program
The COMPAQ Server Pay-Per-Use (SPPU) solution
builds off of the Compaq Computing on Demand
for ProLiant Servers (CCODPS). The CCODPS
service model automates and streamlines
planning, instant server acquisition,
deployment, support, and billing - enabling
customers to optimize asset management and
cash flow management, drive rapid execution,
and quickly respond to fluctuating demand.
Increasing the ability to meet customer
demand when and where it is needed, the
CCODPS provides customers with instant
availability of pre-configured servers,
on-site and ready to run, at their data
centers decreasing the need for customers to
carry excess inventory and eliminating the
risk of stock-out issues.
SPPU offers the customer a flexible pricing
plan based on actual server usage. The
customer has the ability to turn servers in
their inventory on and off as demand
dictates. SPPU is an integral part of the
Computing on Demand initiative.
In order to meet the needs of the customers,
Compaq intends to implement SPPU as one of
the alternative solutions under the Computing
on Demand concept. This solution will provide
Compaq a competitive edge that cannot be
matched in the near term.
*Partner Initially, the Compaq Capacity on Demand for
Value ProLiant servers is targeted for Enterprise
Proposition* customers and xService Providers with whom
Compaq has a direct relationship. Compaq's
goal for the program is to be transparent to
the customer whether it is Compaq or one of
our selected partners selling and marketing
the key program elements.
Compaq will work aggressively with our
Partner community to enhance our ability to
sell and market Capacity on Demand for
ProLiant servers and extend this capability
to a broader market. Our current plan is to
begin to expand this offering to other
Partners in the 4Q01 timeframe.
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