TechWise Research has created a research report on the Total Cost of Ownership of RISC-based cluster solutions. Pitted against clusters from IBM, Sun, and Hewlett Packard, Compaq ran away will all of the honors. The study included RISC-based clusters from IBM, Sun, Hewlett Packard, and Compaq. The installed base of server clusters has been growing at a rapid pace for several years. These systems provide customers with the performance and reliability necessary for mission-critical applications.
Clusters often serve as the heart of an organization's computing environment.
Midrange server clusters from Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems were compared in terms of their acquisition, installation, training, configuration, management, and maintenance costs. In addition to these costs, this paper also compares the reliability of these four cluster systems. On average, Compaq AlphaServers running OpenVMS experience half the incidence of unplanned downtime per year than the competition. This superior reliability translates into an even better TCO cost advantage.