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Customer quotes
Customers share their accolades for the technology expertise delivered by the HP and AMD partnership. |
Beverly Enterprises, Inc. of Fort Smith, Ark., and its operating subsidiaries are leading providers of healthcare services to the elderly in the United States. It operates some 345 skilled nursing facilities, as well as 18 assisted living centers, and 63 hospice/home care centers. Through Aegis Therapies, the company offers rehabilitative services on a contract basis to nursing facilities operated by other care providers.
“The new HP t5720 thin client with AMD processing power is a rich solution to deliver manageability and security at the desktop. With HP and AMD collaboration, performance is excellent and we’re able to plan for future growth. We are looking for a total package to plug and play, and the thin client deployment is literally that easy. The user will think he’s running the fastest hardware on the planet.”
– Don Griffin, director, Infrastructure Research and Development, Beverly Enterprises, Inc.
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The University of Iowa is a major national research university located in Iowa City, Iowa. It is composed of 11 colleges. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and the Colleges of Education, Engineering, Law, Nursing, Pharmacy, enroll undergraduates and with the Colleges of Dentistry and Public Health provide graduate education in conjunction with the Graduate College. The University has world-renowned research programs in genetics, hydraulics, speech and hearing, and has recorded major innovations in agricultural medicine, biomedical engineering, biomedical sciences, and pharmacology education. The University of Iowa operates one of the nation’s most advanced and comprehensive university-owned teaching hospitals.
“When we decided to go to a virtual machine infrastructure, the industry buzz was to go with HP ProLiant DL585 servers. The AMD Opteron processors have the performance required and operate cooler, demanding less power. We’re doing additional consolidation, converting even more to the HP AMD-based servers. More performance at a cost savings is a solution we like.”
– Doug Eltoft, IT director, College of Engineering, University of Iowa
Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla., is a private, not-for-profit, fully accredited college offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in six disciplines: Computer Animation, Fine Arts, Graphic & Interactive Communication, Illustration, Interior Design, and Photography & Digital Imaging.
“HP’s partnership with AMD offers advantages in producing high-performance, stable workstations. The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor is extremely important because of the way it accesses memory. There is no bottleneck on accessing memory, which is extremely important in animation applications. The HP xw9300 Workstation provides students with faster feedback on their work. With faster feedback, students have the opportunity to take more creative chances and try different avenues. It’s transparent to the artist, which is just the way it should be.”
– Jim McCampbell, Animation Department, Ringling School of Art and Design
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Teligence develops and delivers voice-enabled services for social networking and entertainment in North America. Vancouver-based Teligence is a high-tech success story with a decidedly human touch. Teligence provides the telecommunications network and custom software for telephone social networking services. Teligence ignited the social networking revolution in the 1990s with Livelinks® and expanded its market presence with Tango Personals®, Vibeline® and Fonochat®.
“The biggest challenges we face are managing growth and maintaining a high level of network uptime. Extremely reliable HP technology on the back end supports both of those goals. ProLiant servers have provided the reliability we need to maintain 24x7 service. Recently, we standardized on ProLiant DL385 and DL585 models, featuring the AMD Opteron processor. Speed was a big factor for our moving to Opteron, along with the ability to support a 64-bit operating system. We know the hardware will perform the way it’s supposed to.”
– Mario Angers, information technology manager, Teligence Communications
Sebaly Shillito + Dyer is in Dayton, Ohio, with attorneys specializing in corporate law, business litigation, probate law and estate planning. A key component of the firm’s philosophy: Teamwork is the best way to serve clients and expand the firm.
“I’ve been very impressed with AMD and their overall concept of designing CPUs. They seem to focus more on building smarter processors. It’s good to see HP and AMD working together to bring this kind of processing power to HP technology.”
– Daniel Williams, network systems administrator, Sebaly Shillito + Dyer
Headquartered in New York City, with offices in California, London and Singapore, Currenex offers corporate and institutional buyers and sellers reliable, low-cost and secure electronic access to the $1 trillion-plus a day global foreign exchange (FX) market. Currenex offers a comprehensive suite of FX and money market trading tools for buying and selling in addition to executable streaming prices, request for streams, benchmark trading and complete prime brokerage functionality with fully integrated pre-trade and post-trade processing services.
“Our success is dependent on the speed of transactions,” said Sean Gilman, chief technology officer at Currenex, which offers corporate and institutional buyers and sellers reliable, low-cost and secure electronic access to the $1+ trillion a day global foreign exchange (FX) market. “HP and AMD bring a dynamic processing power that our clients now rely on. Since we made the move to HP servers, several customers have stated they choose Currenex because we executed trades much more quickly than the competition.”
– Sean Gilman, chief technology officer, Currenex
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Management Science Associates, Inc. is a diversified information management company that for four decades has given market leaders the competitive edge in data management, advanced analytics and technology. Its research focus and innovative solutions transform industrial and institutional practices and illuminate the range, reach and potential of what it can do to infuse organizations with new energy. Whether within a process, across the enterprise, or throughout the supply chain, MSA helps its partners put their data to work in powerful new ways.
“We were very impressed when AMD first described the Opteron architecture and worked with HP for delivery of the first servers available. We’re confident that the technology will not only work today, but into the future with 64-bit computing. We run both Windows and Linux and after one division tried HP ProLiant servers with Opteron processors and Linux OS, it’s been the standard in that business unit. In a Citrix environment, our statistics show that more users can access a Citrix server because of the improved performance and the added performance is cost efficient.”
– Mario Cafaro, senior information systems manager, Management Science Associates, Inc.
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VeriCenter provides selective sourcing services for organizations with better things to do with their time and money than manage servers and data storage. This value proposition has earned the Houston-based company a growing list of customers nationwide that want their computing infrastructure and data protected from everything from viruses to hurricanes. With world-class data centers in six cities, VeriCenter-managed services include security support, data assurance, server administration, network management, servers and various storage solutions. VeriCenter’s IT solutions include disaster recovery, enterprise hosting, messaging and collaboration, and colocation.
“HP ProLiant servers are the backbone of VeriCenter’s data centers and many of the solutions we recommend and provide to our customers. We’ve been adding ProLiant DL585 servers, gaining the advantages of the AMD Opteron processor. The ease of deployment and management control helps us to meet the changing needs of our customers.”
– Dave Colesante, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Engineering, VeriCenter
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