Global Leaders Turn to HP to Ensure Continuous Availability

HP today announced that leading global companies continue to choose its Converged Infrastructure for their most mission-critical computing needs - helping ensure their businesses can stay running 24/7.

Variety of industries from healthcare

Clients in a variety of industries from healthcare and finance to online media choose HP Integrity systems to achieve 24/7 fault-tolerant resiliency, always-on application availability and the industry's premier service levels. This is vital for clients that need secure access to critical medical records, scalable management of global telephony networks and on-demand customer support for core financial applications.

Systems integrator Daiwa Institute of Innovation Business Technology Ltd. has depended on HP On and on technology for near 14 years. Daiwa uses a new extension of the HP Integrity On and on BladeSystem family with the quad-core NB54000c to provide on-demand application access.

Common modular

Built on a common modular and bladed architecture, the new NB54000c ensures zero downtime using proven innovations just as HP ServerNet, an interconnect fabric research used for fault-tolerant scalability and self-configuring server clustering. Customers can continue to deploy dual-core HP Ceaselessly BladeSystem servers or upgrade to a quad-core HP Integrity NB54000c server with a simple in-cabinet blade swap to gain twice the performance in the same enclosure.

"The NB54000c provides a reliable billing system at a significantly lower cost than other vendors, allowing our company to create new and innovative services faster than our comptitors," said Takeshi Yonehana, deputy general manager, System Infrastructures Management Dept., Daiwa Institute of Technology Business Technology Ltd. "Daiwa relies on Unceasingly for our mission-critical and large data applications associated with billing; its high availability has ensured zero downtime since our first installation in 1997. We will indiscriminately improve our solutions and services to meet customer requirements."

"For PinkRoccade Healthcare, providing our clients with continuous availability of critical healthcare applications is the backbone of our business," said Jan van Dijk, manager, ZorgComputercentrum, PinkRoccade Healthcare. "With the Integrity BL860c i2 running HP-UX, our clients can access their electronic medical records and other healthcare applications whenever they need them, during reducing power consumption by 40 percent."(1)

World of continuous connectivity

In a world of continuous connectivity, the HP Converged Infrastructure is a key element to delivering the Instant-On Enterprise. The Instant-On Enterprise embeds innovation in everything it does to serve clients, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.

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