GENEVA, Nov. 1, 2005 - HP today 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.(1)
"To remain competitive, customers need adaptive IT environments that increase management efficiency and security while lowering costs," said Rick Becker, vice president and general manager, BladeSystem Division, HP. "The HP BladeSystem with the Itanium 2 processor and HP-UX operating system meets these demanding workloads with the trademark simplicity and flexibility of blade solutions."
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.
"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," said Harald Fischer, director, Central IT, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge. "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."
"Ferguson Enterprises has already seen significant advantages running blade solutions with both the Windows and Linux operating systems. We have saved both time and money in deployment through reduced cabling and a reduction in management complexity," said Eric Castaneda, manager of UNIX Services, Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. "The HP Integrity BL60p Blade servers will allow us to deploy HP-UX applications in the same blade enclosures we currently use for Windows and Linux applications. This seamless integration and the anticipated lower total cost of ownership make the HP Integrity blade a promising server that we will consider for future deployments."
Pricing and availability
Prices for the HP Integrity BL60p blade server starts at $5,695, with units expected to ship early next year.(2) More information on the HP Integrity BL60p and other HP BladeSystem solutions is available at www.hp.com/go/integrityblades.
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(1) The HP Integrity BL60p with two cores achieved 63,561 SPECjbb business operations per second running HP-UX 11i v2. The IBM JS20 with two cores achieved 39,631 SPECjbb business operations per second. SPECjbb2000 evaluates the performance of servers running typical Java(tm) business applications by simulating an order processor for a wholesale supplier.
(2) Estimated U.S. street price. Actual price may vary.
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