Asset Exchange and Month-to-Month Rental Share

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Asset Exchange and Month-to-Month Rental

Industry: Global Manufacturing

Product: HP9000 and HP AlphaServers

Solution: Asset exchange and month-to-month rental

 

Problem:
The customer was in the middle of a data center consolidation project, needing to duplicate their systems and applications exactly in their new data center. This created several problems for the manufacturer:

  • Cost to migrate to new technology was astronomical because of the number of mid-range systems involved.
  • Legacy applications and operating systems could not run on the new equipment.
  • Systems the customer needed to duplicate were discontinued.
  • Customer’s manufacturing facility is a 7x24x365 operation.
  • These were critical applications to their manufacturing processes.

Action:
Great Lakes Computer addressed the customer’s challenges by:

  • Unique configuration comprised of several servers and racks using refurbished equipment to match the customer’s current production environment exactly.
  • Month-to-month rental of the entire multiple rack configuration.
  • Once the customer was confident their new environment was stable, Great Lakes Computer accepted their old equipment from the closed data center.

Result:
The customer received these benefits from Great Lakes Computer:

  • Considerable savings vs. purchasing new HP equipment.
  • Entire data center environment duplicated in a new location for their data center consolidation project in a short timeframe.
  • Flexible month-to-month rental program.
  • Hardware support for legacy applications.
  • Easy, and very unique, asset exchange with Great Lakes Computer at the end of the project.
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