HP Flexible Quantity License Kit 302127-B21 Fascicule

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“With our software products utilizing Oracle 
applications that operate on an HP platform, it 
is imperative that such an alliance between both 
companies works well. The support provided by HP 
and Oracle is totally integrated,” continues Simpson. 
“Not only are our mission-critical systems benefiting 
from the stability of the HP Adaptive Infrastructure but, 
thanks to Oracle’s development tools, we can safely 
look to the future and produce our next-generation 
products.”
Whether it is industry-standard servers, storage, 
desktops, laptops or printers, solutions are dispatched 
to customers from HP Factory Express fully configured 
and loaded with the appropriate software and 
applications using HP Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP). 
HP RDP helps MICROS-Fidelio to set up systems 
quickly and saves money by reducing the time its 
engineers spend on-site. Systems are pre-assembled 
and tested before delivery to reduce installer time 
on site, operations are then monitored remotely via 
a central network center in Neuss (near Düsseldorf), 
Germany. Every solution carries the highest level of 
support with an HP Care Pack (Support Plus 24), with 
24x7 on- and off-site services to minimize business 
disruption in the event of system failure.
Hosting business increases by 50 percent annually 
MICROS-Fidelio also uses HP hardware in its 
data centers in Frankfurt, Germany, the U.S. and 
Singapore. Leisure organizations, especially large 
hotel chains, are increasingly outsourcing IT to such 
data centers so they can concentrate more on their 
core business. MICROS-Fidelio has a $9.7 million 
global financing arrangement with HP Financial 
Services to lease equipment for its data centers in the 
EMEA region. Under this arrangement, HP replaces its 
equipment every three years.
“We have seen our hosting business increase by 
50 percent year-on-year over the last three years – 
that’s an increase of over 230 percent,” adds Stenz. 
“We currently host an amazing 25 percent of our 
customers from our Frankfurt data center, and I 
believe we now operate the world’s largest Oracle 
implementation within the hotel sector.”
Next generation data centers today 
MICROS-Fidelio currently manages a total of about 
650 HP physical servers and 370 virtual servers and 
plans to virtualize much of their server technology at 
its Frankfurt data centers, which employ HP server 
and HP StorageWorks 8100 Enterprise Virtual 
Arrays storage technology. To date, the company 
has consolidated 160 servers using virtualization 
technology. New solutions from MICROS-Fidelio are 
being developed on HP BladeSystem platforms using 
the latest HP Adaptive Infrastructure technologies 
including Insight Dynamic-VSE and HP Virtual Connect 
to virtualize the network and storage interface and 
further simplify and automate processes in the data 
center.
“Oracle offers Real Application Clusters technology 
which allows us to scale horizontally and combine the 
processing power of HP servers. Other competitive 
databases simply cannot do this,” comments 
Simpson. “Combining these technologies allows 
our data centers to provide customers with exactly 
what they want – capacity-on-demand processing of 
information. In my opinion, cluster technology has 
dramatically improved our data center operations. 
HP and Oracle are giving us tomorrow’s technology 
today,” 
MICROS-Fidelio has opened a second data center in 
Frankfurt. This second data center helps the company 
handle its expanding business and further enhances 
its existing disaster-recovery strategy by providing an 
effective redundant site to protect operations.
“This $6.5 million investment will again combine 
HP and Oracle technologies. We will employ HP 
Continuous Access storage technology and Oracle’s 
Real Application Clusters technology to provide 
cost effective active–active data center redundancy 
in strategic geographical locations. Thanks to our 
partnership with HP and Oracle, our business is set to 
grow further,” concludes Stenz. 
“Oracle offers Real Application Clusters technology 
which allows us to scale horizontally and combine the 
processing power of HP servers. Other competitive 
databases simply cannot do this. Combining these 
technologies allows our data centers to provide 
customers with exactly what they want – capacity-on-
demand processing of information. In my opinion, 
cluster technology has dramatically improved our 
data center operations. HP and Oracle are giving us 
tomorrow’s technology today.”