HP BladeSystem* 和 Sesame Street* 帮助开展儿童在线教育

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HP BladeSystem* and Sesame Street* Help Educate Children Online

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HP ProLiant* server blades with SUSE Linux* Enterprise Server reduce total cost of ownership by 85% compared to previous Sesame Street* website infrastructure of Sun and IBM servers.

Objective.

Unify and streamline the Sesame Street Web infrastructure to reduce costs and distribute media content .

Approach.

Migrate the mixed server and operating-system environment to the HP BladeSystem and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Business technology improvements:
• 70% consolidation of web servers (approximately 60 servers eliminated)
• 25 times the performance per watt compared to older RISC-based servers
• Greater scalability and better manageability with a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI)
• Improved resource planning, backup, and disaster recovery via virtualization
• Enhanced power management capabilities

Business outcomes
• 30% reduction in hardware costs with Xen virtualization on the HP BladeSystem
• Lower software licensing costs, contributing to an overall IT budget reduction of 18%
• 77% savings in total cost of ownership (TCO) over three years compared to Sun Fire servers
• 50% savings in operating system licensing based on enclosure subscription pricing compared to per-physical-blade subscription

Read the full HP BladeSystem* and Sesame Street* Case Study.