HP optimizes compute to transform mission-critical environment

HP has announced the expansion of its Compute portfolio with new platforms optimized for mission-critical environments. As the next milestone in HP’s Compute strategy, these platforms run the most demanding mission-critical workloads on x86 architectures with higher levels of performance, scalability, availability and efficiency.

Customers with mission-critical environments and revenue-generating applications cannot tolerate downtime or slow business performance. As a result, mission-critical workloads must meet the most stringent service level agreements (SLAs) in the industry, often with zero unplanned downtime requirements.

HP Integrity Superdome X and HP Integrity NonStop X are tailored for the most demanding mission-critical workloads. By extending these platforms to highly scalable x86 environments, HP is bringing mission-critical solutions to a broader market.

These servers help customers achieve better business results by:
• Boosting business performance to grow revenue, margin and market share;
• Providing continuous service availability with minimal or even zero application downtime; and
• Reducing complexity and cost with breakthrough efficiency.

“In today’s always-on world, service outages and slow response times result in lost revenue,” said Vikram K, Director, Servers, HP India. “HP is extending our vast expertise in building mission-critical environments to help customers achieve the best business performance for large-scale workloads on an efficient x86 infrastructure.”

Mission-critical performance and availability at industry-standard efficiencies

The HP Integrity Superdome X blends x86 efficiencies with proven HP Superdome innovation for critical Linux workloads, including business processing, decision support and enterprise databases. Designed to achieve the highest levels of reliability, availability and serviceability, HP Integrity Superdome X is an alternative to a costly, inefficient, proprietary system or an x86 infrastructure that lacks the performance, scalability and availability to power mission-critical workloads.

The HP Integrity Superdome X redefines x86 compute with breakthrough scalability up to 16 sockets and 12TB memory to support the largest enterprise applications and unpredictable workloads. The unique HP nPars hard partitioning technology offers 20 times greater reliability (1) to maximize application uptime by insulating and isolating critical applications from other failures. To accelerate business performance, the HP Integrity Superdome X dramatically improves compute efficiency by delivering up to nine times the performance of the HP DL980 G7, the current HP 8-socket x86 server. (2)

“As a global supplier of health information technologies, Cerner continues to innovate to meet our clients’ needs,” said Kent Scheuler, senior vice president, Cerner. “We look to HP as a partner to provide compute power in support of our innovation. The HP Integrity Superdome X provides the scalability to support our largest clients, the performance to deliver the results our clients have come to expect, and the availability that health care demands.”

The only fully-integrated, fault-tolerant x86 compute

With HP Integrity NonStop X, HP is extending the fully integrated, 100 percent fault-tolerant NonStop hardware and software to the industry-standard x86 architecture. This provides customers with flexibility and choice of a portfolio of NonStop servers that achieve the highest availability, near-linear scalability and lowest total cost of ownership in its class.(3)

The HP Integrity NonStop X offers up to 100 percent application availability. As a result, customers will be able to accelerate service delivery of workloads such as business processing, online transaction processing (OLTP) and large database environments.