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Pay Per Use Utility Computing

Pay per use (PPU) is a very different model than Instant Capacity. All of the Instant Capacity offerings are technologies that allow you to purchase resources, either permanently or temporarily, on systems that you have purchased. Pay per use is a leasing model. Instead of purchasing the system from HP, you are leasing it. The key difference between a PPU lease and a standard lease is that the PPU lease payment will vary from month to month depending on the usage of the system for the previous month. The PPU lease payment has two components. The first is the base payment, which is roughly half the cost of a standard lease. The other component is the variable portion of the payment.

PPU Use Model

Since Pay per use ...