Hewlett Packard
Consolidating servers: Reducing costs and improving performance
The cornerstone of HP's approach is the consolidation of multiple applications onto a cluster of HP servers or onto a single, highly available partitioned system from the HP 9000 or HP Integrity server platform. With HP business-critical servers and HP cluster software, customers can achieve superior functionality by configuring dozens of CPUs into an integrated solution that operates under either a single system image or multi-system images, with no single points of failure. HP's cluster and partitioning architectures support computing environments ranging from small workgroups to thousands of users. These architectures feature
- Centralised availability, performance and workload management
- Scalable, high-performance single-system or multi-system configurations
- Scalable I/O and storage capabilities
- Flexible capacity-on-demand solutions
- High-speed connectivity
- A choice of high-performance processor architectures and operating systems
HP 9000 servers
With its business-critical, proven data center performance, the HP 9000 server family has been the overwhelming UNIX? server of choice for more than a decade and is destined to continue this leadership. The HP 9000 server product line running HP-UX addresses the major computing challenges that customers face today in online transaction processing (OLTP), enterprise resource planning (ERP), business intelligence, Internet, server consolidation and scientific and technical applications. Business-critical proven for the most exacting environments, the HP 9000 server family offers high-availability capabilities that keep data centers up and running, virtually 24 hours per day and 365 days per year.
HP Integrity servers
HP's family of Integrity servers provides the industry's best performing, most scalable and most highly available platforms for server consolidation. Integrity's unified system architecture is based on the revolutionary Intel? Itanium? instruction set that was co-developed by HP and Intel. Through partitioning, HP Integrity platforms can support HP-UX, OpenVMS, Linux and Windows? operating systems on the same server. With a variety of applications and the ability to run multiple operating systems, HP Integrity servers give customers maximum choice and flexibility. These benefits, coupled with outstanding performance, can contribute to dramatically lower total cost of ownership.
