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Rockwell Collins
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Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) is a leader in the design, production and support of communications and aviation electronics for commercial and government customers worldwide. From industry-leading navigation and display technologies to advanced communication and networking technologies, Rockwell Collins' solutions are benefiting the world's airlines and business aircraft operators, as well as the United States and allied military forces.
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- Extra computing power but without the associated complexities and costs that go with customary hardware procurement
- Wanted to be able to pay only for the computing cycles it uses
- Move to a service-on-demand computing model, and at the same time take the opportunity of the SAP upgrade to simplify and consolidate our IT environment
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- Consolidate 50 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) servers to five HP Superdome servers
- HP's Pay per use metering software measures CPUs in use
- HP's Pay per use web site tracks activation and usage
- HP's Pay per use financing charges only for CPUs that were used
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- Between 30 and 40 percent procurement cost saving over typical purchasing methods
- IT support costs reduced by 20 percent as a result of staff redeployment to higher value work
- Four hundred feet of data center space made available for other uses
- Highly agile, scalable, IT platform capable of supporting future business needs
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