What to look for…

1. Are you buying or replacing two or more rack servers within the next 12 months with plans to grow
2. Are you wishing to set up a durable, long-term IT infrastructure that will grow with them
3. Are you running applications like Web serving and online commerce, networking e-mail, consolidated file and print, along with large-scale database applications like data warehousing and ERP
4. Are you using high-performance computing (HPC) applications such as digital signal processing, bioinformatics, seismic modeling, crash simulations or digital rendering
5. Do you who have old Intel, AMD or SPARC processor-based servers suffering from poor availability and performance, lack of floor space, limited power and cooling capabilities in their data centers and difficulty keeping track of and managing servers
6. Are you transitioning from UNIX to Linux
7. Are you currently using AIX
8. Are you currently using Solaris 10 or moving to Solaris 10 on x86 architectures
9. Are you using Solaris but looking for a low-cost transition to Linux
10. Are you looking to migrate from Sun T2000 servers
11. Are you facing limitations due to an aging data-center
12. Are you looking to integrate Intel, AMD and/or IBM processor-based server in one infrastructure
13. Are you looking to reduce system administration costs through consolidation and more efficient remote management