The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
“In this economic climate, any IT
investments that can drive down costs and provide a quick return on
investment would be attractive to Australian businesses. The added
pressure of the data centre, as a key component of corporate energy
use, is a concern for business technology executives facing capacity
issues, power limitations and increasing energy costs,” says Maisano.
According to Maisano, HP has evidence that its new servers can pay for themselves within 3 months.
Maisano
says: “We’re currently working with a major Australian financial
organisation to review the new HP ProLiant G6 range in light of the
current challenges to the business.
"Their feedback has
highlighted to us that the accelerated return on investment makes a
transition to the G6 range more feasible. These returns are being
realised in a time frame of as little as 3 months compared with the
usual period of around 12 months.”
According to HP, the new HP
ProLiant G6 servers are available in 11 standards-based tower, rack and
blade platforms, representing the largest HP ProLiant rollout in
company history.
As far as productivity is concerned, the new
server platform claims a comprehensive set of embedded technologies and
flexible tools, including:
HP ProLiant Onboard
Administrator – designed to simplify server set-up and enable customers
to inspect server health from any location, including when a server is
offline.
HP Insight Control Environment (ICE)
management console – claiming to reduce operational expenses up to
$48,000 for every 100 users by allowing customers to control the
management and monitoring of the server infrastructure on-site or
remotely.
HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet
module – claimed to be the industry’s first interconnect technology to
allocate the bandwidth of a 10Gb Ethernet network port across four
network interface card connections. This is claimed to eliminate the
need for additional network hardware equipment, and to enable customers
deploying virtual machines to realise savings of up to 55% in network
equipment costs.
Most new HP ProLiant G6 platforms are
available today and shipping worldwide; DL 360, DL 370 and BL280c
models are expected to be available in the coming weeks. Starting
prices for HP ProLiant G6 servers range from US$999 to US$2,105 and
vary based on specific configurations.
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