Price Perception
At Computacenter, we work with you to manage the lifetime cost of running your IT infrastructure. This means we can help you weigh up the true cost of buying and running servers, helping you understand the impact of purchasing the cheapest servers available.
HP ProLiant servers are very competitive on price. But the true value lies in their ease of management. HP ProLiant’s server management software comes straight out of the box for free. It’s class leading, and ensures you can manage your servers and other hardware effectively.
This means you can marshal your IT resources to best effect. You get a true perspective of what’s happening in your IT environment, can automate many of your manual server management processes and work far more efficiently.
It’s very easy to fall for the headline grabbing, low price. But we always advise our customers of the hidden extras you’re likely to pay for. Buy from Computacenter and what you see is what you pay. You’ll know when you can have it, when it will be working, and how much the entire solution will cost, from initial purchase through to deployment and management.
Joint Brand Value
Together, HP and Computacenter bring you over 25 years of joint trading experience, developing our skills jointly and deliver solutions to customers of all kinds. Accountable for over 42% of HP’s ProLiant server shipment in the UK last year, we offer strength in depth as HP’s number one UK reseller, a position we’ve held for 17 consecutive years.
Last year, Computacenter supported over 700,000 end users across Europe (Source, Computacenter), who enjoy project managed supply with customer ready configuration and image management – from one server to entire racks ready to roll into your environment. 2 million incidents were successfully managed and resolved across 11 different languages
And of course, we offer you complete freedom of choice. At Computacenter, we offer 1,000 multi-vendor technical accreditations. That means we can offer you a breadth and depth of technical skills across multiple environments, putting the choice of best-in-class technology firmly in your hands, and 2,100 technical experts on your doorstep to ensure you get the best possible support.
Together, Computacenter and HP's objective is to lower your risk, reduce cost whilst adding value, and provide you with access to first class products. With our in-house HP professionals – including engineers, consultants, pre-sales and sales specialists – Computacenter utilises our in-depth knowledge and experience to enable our customers to plan, deploy and manage HP technologies to meet their specific business needs.
Lifetime Management
When you consider that 50% of your IT investment cost resides in managing your infrastructure, you can see why the purchase price is not the only factor to consider. The value of the HP ProLiant server range is the ease with which it can be deployed and managed within a complex IT environment.
In managing IT infrastructure, so many of our customers share the same objectives – to reduce costs, remove complexity and build efficiency. The challenge is that many of our customers need to achieve these with a budget that doesn’t grow in line with the demands of a growing business.
At Computacenter, we do whatever we can to assist you. For instance, we can provide the most competitive prices in the market through our price benchmarking service, which analyses over 25,000 market sources across Europe to get you the most competitive prices on products and components. We can then help you deploy, manage and support your HP ProLiant investment throughout its entire lifecycle with expert teams of consultants and engineers.
Product and Technology
10 million and still counting. That’s the impressive number of HP ProLiants shipped since they first hit the market.
You can see why HP are number one for industry standard servers, and Blades. HP offers best-in-class servers, designed in-house with the purpose of ensuring consistent, reliable and high performance integration of technology. This is backed up by its leading annual patent registration for new innovations and its unparalleled spend on R&D – $3bn per annum at the last count. That’s why HP ProLiant servers are rigorously tested across 30 different measures. And why HP have recently launched a water-cooled rack to help customers meet the growing challenge of power and heat in crowded data centres.
HP’s commitment to making life easier extends to core components. The HP ProLiant server range features the latest AMD 64 CPUs. These routinely outperform Intel on a price for performance per watt basis and run 10 – 20% cooler so you save money on power and air conditioning.
Total Solution
If you want a total solution, talk to Computacenter and HP. When you start with the best industry standard server technology as your basic building block, then you get class leading server management out of the box for free. HP Systems Insight Manager enables you to maintain uptime and guarantee satisfaction from a single user-friendly console. It’s also the gateway to a host of other solutions that enable simpler management of your server hardware – HP ProLiant Essentials
You also get the opportunity to plan new deployments with Computacenter’s expert consultants. We can talk to you about how to reduce your energy costs and even conduct a Power Audit to help you combat rising energy bills. HP ProLiant servers running AMD 64 Opteron processors reduce the CPU load by up to 75% during processor idle times, so your energy costs come down.
Virtualisation is another key consideration. At Computacenter, we work with customers every day to help them meet IT demand without investing in new hardware, simply by utilising existing server resources more effectively through a process of virtualisation.
Together, Computacenter and HP offer a total solution. Our objective is to lower your risk, reduce cost whilst adding value, and provide you with access to first class products. With our in-house HP professionals – including engineers, consultants, pre-sales and sales specialists – we utilise our in-depth knowledge and experience to enable our customers to plan, deploy and manage HP technologies to meet their specific business needs.