HP delivers Converged Infrastructure in one platform

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solutions that significantly improve customers' service-level
agreement performance, provide up to 100 percent application
availability and simplify mission-critical computing for the most
demanding application workloads.

The company has also introduced
AllianceONE, an alliance partner program which optimizes solutions
across servers, storage, networking and professional services that
supports a mission-critical Converged Infrastructure.

Built on a new HP Blade Scale
Architecture that spans servers, storage and networking, the
Integrity solutions deliver the Converged Infrastructure. This
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in a
decade.

The architecture also allows clients to
deploy, automate and manage a complete range of applications side by
side, within the same enclosure, and using the same components, tools
and processes. With a single management environment, clients can
maintain consistent control of the entire IT infrastructure.

HP is one of the only vendors
delivering a unified BladeSystem platform that spans x86 to HP
Superdome 2. As a result, HP clients can create datacenters that
allow them to spend less time on operations, and instead focus their
resources on driving innovation to address business needs.

The new Integrity portfolio includes
servers, software and services that provide clients up to 450 percent
improvement in infrastructure reliability over previous generations
with the new HP Integrity Superdome 2. Built on the unified Blade
Scale Architecture, Integrity Superdome 2 delivers more than 100 new
mission-critical innovations to provide breakthrough availability.
Its unique Crossbar Fabric increases system resiliency by
intelligently routing data between blades and input/output ports with
complete redundancy. It provides an improved performance and lowers
TCO with new HP Integrity server blades, which expand from two
sockets to the industry's first eight-socket UNIX scale-up server
blade. HP Blade Link technology easily scales and reconfigures
systems by combining multiple blades to create two-, four- and
eight-socket systems. This delivers up to nine times the performance
in half the footprint. Clients also can mix and match HP Integrity,
HP ProLiant and HP StorageWorks blades in the same enclosure for
maximum flexibility. Investment protection with the new HP Integrity
rx2800 i2 rack-mount server, enables clients to use their existing
rack-mount environments. With a familiar infrastructure design, the
server is ideal for smaller or remote installations such as branch
office applications. Greater availability and user productivity with
the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system, delivers up to 50 percent
improvement in application deployment time and the fastest failover
in the market. HP-UX offers automated workload management that allows
clients to shrink and grow virtual servers with the needs of their
businesses. Available in a pay-per-use model, HP-UX also delivers
instant capacity on demand and built-in software enhancements to
improve management and security.

With faster time to market and
improved management with HP BladeSystem Matrix with HP-UX, the
company's Converged Infrastructure platform is there for shared
services. The solution enables clients to provision entire
application infrastructures including software, servers, storage and
networking in minutes instead of weeks or months to automate the
delivery of shared services for the datacenter.

The easy migration of legacy
applications with support from HP Converged Infrastructure Consulting
Services and Application Modernization Services. Clients also have
access to the resources they need to design, test and implement
highly scalable applications and infrastructures. It ensures higher
levels of availability with HP Mission Critical Services that
identify all possible sources of downtime. The services are offered
on a variety of levels, including Proactive Select, Critical Service
and full Mission Critical Partnership. Clients have access to the
industry's one of the most extensive pools of consultants
specializing in Converged Infrastructure transformations.

AllianceONE, HP's new solutions-based
alliance partner program across servers, storage and networking
basically provides software vendors, hardware vendors and SIs greater
simplicity and faster return on IT investments. Through AllianceONE,
alliance partners access a single program that offers the broadest
choice of industry solutions designed for an HP Converged
Infrastructure.

HP Converged Infrastructure is built on
a standards-based architecture across Microsoft Windows, Linux,
HP-UX, OpenVMS and HP NonStop platforms. This enables clients and
partners to build leading solutions that are flexible and adaptable
to meet changing business demands.