HP recently introduced its first UNIX® blade technology to bring the cost-efficiency and versatility of blades to UNIX customers.
Adding mission-critical capabilities to the HP BladeSystem platform, the new HP Integrity BL60p blade server supports the HP-UX 11i operating system and the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor.
The BL60p is ideal for distributed, remote sites and UNIX infrastructure consolidation as it allows organizations to automate goal-based workloads across multi-operating system platforms with HP’s Global Workload Manager software.
Demonstrating the power of HP Integrity servers and the Itanium processor, the HP Integrity BL60p outperformed its nearest competitor, the IBM JS20, by 60 percent on recent benchmark and business process testing.
“To remain competitive, customers need adaptive IT environments that increase management efficiency and security while lowering costs,” said Martyn Molnar, Manager, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP Middle East. “The HP BladeSystem with the Itanium 2 processor and HP-UX operating system meet these demanding workloads with the trademark simplicity and flexibility of blade solutions.”
Commenting on the benefits of the blade solution, Harald Fischer, director, Central IT, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge said: “Today, we rely on HP Integrity Superdome servers and have looked for additional cost-efficient, agile blade servers that can easily be deployed, provisioned and managed all on different operating systems. The HP Integrity BL60p would meet those requirements as it would allow us to deploy UNIX workloads in the same blade enclosure we currently use for Windows and Linux applications, delivering seamless integration, coupled with HP-UX 11i virtualization and management capabilities.”
The BL60p blade server is managed by HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) software. HP SIM is the single point of control for managing comprehensive server, storage and network solutions across various operating systems. Without compromising on performance or redundancy, the BL60p can be partitioned into running up to six separate instances of HP-UX 11i v2.
More information on the HP Integrity BL60p and other HP BladeSystem solutions is available at www.hp.com/go/integrityblades.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2005, HP revenue totaled $85.2 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 670 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Khobar, Cairo and Ramallah servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968, and opened its first regional office in 1994.HP Middle East is the market leader for Enterprise, Small and Medium Business and Consumer technology products, and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.
For more information about HP in the Middle East, please visit www.hp.com/me.
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