Pay Per Use

As was mentioned in the last chapter, Pay per use (PPU) is different than Instant Capacity and Temporary Instant Capacity because it is actually an alternative lease program in which your payment to HP varies depending on how busy the system is over the course of each month.

Key Benefits

The key benefit of a PPU lease is that virtually all customers will save money compared to a standard lease. In the PPU Program, there is a base payment and a variable payment each month. The base payment is usually roughly half of the cost of a standard lease. The variable payment is based on average utilization over the course of the previous month.

The key things to consider when investigating PPU are that the maximum monthly payment is 105% of ...

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