Itanium Rising: Breaking Through Moore's Second Law of Computing Power

The Four Main TCO Solutions

The end goal of any TCO solution is to reduce costs as much as possible to improve the return on the initial investment. To that end, there are four main solutions promulgated by HP:

• Simplification by standardization

• Management solutions

• Business protection

• Life cycle management

Simplification by Standardization

Of course, reducing the heterogeneity of your network of computers (moving away from a mixed network) is the easiest simplification remedy for end-user support. The Intel Itanium^[21] processor family helps you with this aspect because the HP and Intel alliance set to design a microprocessor architecture that could become the new industry standard for enterprise servers and high-end workstations. If you can standardize ...