The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter
by Dan Herington, Bryan Jacquot
Chapter Overview
What do your power bill, your water bill, and your computer hardware bill all have in common? Answer: all three of these utilities can be billed based on the amount of resources you consume. This seems normal for your water bill and power bill, but paying for computer hardware based on usage? HP's Pay per use (PPU) solution enables customers to lease computer hardware with a variable payment based on actual use of the system.
HP's Virtual Server Environment combined with the PPU solution delivers the ability to treat a data center as a utility. When the workloads demand greater computing resources, the resources are ready and waiting. When the demand for resources decreases, the PPU solution tracks the decline and the lease payment ...
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