Hewlett-Packard has unveiled an entry-level NonStop server system that delivers business continuity and availability to a new segment of enterprise customers.
The HP Integrity NonStop NS1000 Server is designed for smaller companies in the healthcare, financial services and telecommunications industries, which increasingly face the same business requirements as their larger competitors: 24 x 7 availability and real-time access to critical business applications.
For example, in the financial services industry, the NS1000 can serve as the backbone of ATM and point-of-sale transactions, providing the entire stack of hardware, operating system, software and database in a single solution.
"There is a large segment of smaller enterprise customers that tends to be priced out of market for high-end, fault-tolerant servers," said Stephen Josselyn, research director, IDC. "For those customers, the NS1000 server offers significant value and additional choice for application availability and fault tolerance."
Customers in emerging markets such as Russia and China would benefit from having the superior service levels and availability that HP Integrity NonStop technology provides.
Unlike in more mature markets, governments and corporations in these markets are often starting from scratch in building data centers that will meet their needs for the next 20 to 30 years; the NS1000 can serve as a key building block for these infrastructures.
HP said the NS1000 server also supports the high-availability needs of larger companies with distributed installations, such as hospitals with satellite facilities or financial institutions with branch offices.
Craig Wagner, director, marketing and solutions, NonStop Enterprise Division, HP, said, "For customers seeking an affordable, continuously available environment right out of the box, the search ends with the HP Integrity NonStop NS1000 Server."
The NS1000 server is based on the new NonStop Value Architecture, which pairs industry-standard hardware components with the fundamental benefits of the NonStop software suite: software fault tolerance/fault isolation, dynamic workload balancing, linear scalability, application virtualization and cluster programming transparency.
Powered by Intel Itanium 2 processors, supported configurations include: two to eight processors, four and eight gigabytes of memory, 1.3 GHz/3 megabyte cache and the ability to connect up to 32 terabytes of disk storage per system using internal disks.
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