HP Sets Blade Agenda by Delivering the Future of Business Computing

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"AMD is committed to combining forces with HP to advance the next generation of blade computing with new power-efficient solutions for the data center. Customer-centric innovation is at the heart of AMD, and we are proud to align ourselves with HP to offer AMD OpteronT processor-based solutions with industry-leading performance-per-watt-per-dollar capabilities that help to resolve critical challenges in the data centers of today and tomorrow."

-- Linda Starr, corporate vice president, Sales and Marketing

“As the No. 1 provider of blade server networking equipment, Blade Network Technologies is pleased to provide HP with a high-speed, secure, and cost-savvy communications gateway for the new HP BladeSystem c-Class. Our partnership with HP provides unparalleled investment protection: customers can deploy BladeSystem with a robust networking backbone out of the box, and upgrade to support more advanced applications in the future.”

-- Vikram Mehta, president and chief executive officer

"The next-generation HP BladeSystem is designed to easily meet the changing needs of dynamic business environments. Brocade was the first company to provide HP BladeSystem users with embedded connectivity to storage area networks and we continue to collaborate with HP to provide advanced IT infrastructure solutions that reduce cost, optimize power and cooling efficiency, and simplify storage connectivity."

-- Tom Buiocchi, vice president, Worldwide Marketing and Support

"The HP BladeSystem architecture integrates the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 for HP with best-in-class servers and management capabilities. This helps customers streamline their data center infrastructures, reducing operating costs while achieving new levels of efficiency. Today's announcement is yet another example of Cisco and HP collaborating to open up new opportunities for our joint customers."

-- David Leonard, vice president and general manager, Desktop Switching Business Unit

"We have been an HP partner of over 15 years. Tens of thousands of Citrix customers are currently deployed on HP servers and we continue to see the rapid adoption of the HP BladeSystem as customers expand their Citrix deployments. This growth is coming as customers look to quickly and efficiently deploy, redeploy and manage their Citrix Access Infrastructure environment without incurring huge costs or sacrificing scalability."

-- David Jones, corporate vice president, Business Development and Corporate Affairs

"The new HP BladeSystem c-Class delivers a uniquely innovative design, ideal for enterprise users seeking energy-efficient, management-friendly IT solutions. With unprecedented SAN attach rates within server blade environments, we are confident that coupling the new HP BladeSystem c-Class with Emulex 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters will exceed customer expectations in the areas of performance, reliability and ease of use."

-- Mike Smith, executive vice president, Worldwide Marketing

"Production-deployed, InfiniBand-enabled clusters at tier 1 Wall Street financial firms have dramatically improved hardware utilization from 15 percent of capacity to 70 percent because of the performance and optimal CPU utilization that only InfiniBand is proven to deliver. InfiniBand adapters and switch blades based on Mellanox's technology are the ideal fabric solution for HP's BladeSystem c-Class that consolidates communications, computing, management and storage onto a single, low-latency backplane interconnect. HP's 'InfiniBand Accelerated' blade systems deliver world-class performance, optimal power usage, processing density, efficiency and scalability necessary to service the most demanding dynamic virtualized enterprise and technical computing workloads."

-- Eyal Waldman, chairman and chief executive officer

“Customers are on a treadmill of complexity and cost that limits the value IT delivers to the business. HP’s next-generation BladeSystem, running Windows Server 2003 along with Microsoft System Center management technologies and Microsoft virtualization software, helps customers operate mainstream business services such as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange more nimbly and helps customers be more responsive to new business requirements, such as high-performance computing clusters using the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. HP’s commitment to support Microsoft infrastructure software helps our mutual customers better serve their clients and deliver breakthrough products and services.”

-- Zane Adam, director, Windows Server Division

“Linux on blades is one of the most cost-effective, flexible and scalable infrastructure solutions on the market today. We’re excited to support the new HP BladeSystem. With SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 coming this summer and HP BladeSystem, customers will have powerful new tools for virtualization, security and management to meet the requirements of even the most demanding data center.”

-- Jeff Jaffe, executive vice president and chief technology officer

“Oracle and HP share a long history of innovation and engineering excellence. HP’s launch of its next-generation infrastructure provides a world-class platform for our customers to deploy grid computing, including Oracle’s industry-leading database and next-generation SOA solutions, with Oracle Fusion Applications, all running on HP platforms. Combining Oracle infrastructure software and application solutions with the new HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture will offer customers superior performance, availability and scalability that can simplify and streamline management tasks while helping lower the total cost of ownership.”

-- Judson Althoff, vice president, Global Platform and Distribution Partners

“HP and PolyServe share a strong commitment to providing our customers with solutions that empower the next-generation data center. The combination of HP’s BladeSystem c-Class and PolyServe utility software delivers unmatched manageability and scalability to create a powerful platform for consolidating infrastructure and mission-critical applications while sharply reducing complexity and cost. We are pleased to integrate PolyServe software solutions with the new HP BladeSystem architecture.”

-- Michael Stankey, chairman and chief executive officer

“Leaders run IT with high levels of productivity, low operational costs, high utilization and extreme flexibility. The new HP BladeSystem with 4Gb Fibre Channel technology from QLogic is designed to deliver a best-run IT infrastructure out of the box.”

-- Frank Berry, vice president, Corporate Marketing

“HP is delivering the true benefits of blade architectures. Innovations in such areas as server, storage, network, power and cooling and management capabilities will help IT departments save time and cost and improve resource management. Combined with the power and flexibility of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers have a strong foundation for more efficiently deploying new IT infrastructure solutions.”

-- Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, and general manager, Enterprise Products

“Many joint HP and VMware customers have achieved dramatic cost savings by broadly deploying VMware infrastructure on HP BladeSystem. These customers recognize the high synergy between blade systems and VMware’s distributed, scale-out virtualization strategy. By combining the new BladeSystem c-Class with the newly introduced VMware Infrastructure 3 suite, our customers will be able to view their BladeSystem infrastructure as highly available, continuously optimized resource pools that can be managed by VMware VirtualCenter, HP Systems Insight Manager and HP OpenView products.”

-- Diane Greene, president

"We are extremely pleased to work with HP to enable customers to experience the benefits of the next-generation data center. The combination of HP’s new blade servers and Voltaire’s multi-service switches and software that integrate InfiniBand, storage and network connectivity in a single chassis gives customers performance, scalability and virtualization capabilities in an affordable, ‘out-of-the-box’ solution.”

-- Patrick Guay, senior vice president, Marketing