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Integrity systems: an overall better infrastructure

With the introduction of the PA-8900 processor, customer benefit from enhanced performance, greater scalability, and a technology path that provides improvements to existing HP 9000 servers and can easily be upgraded to HP Integrity servers.

Atmos Energy Corporation

Atmos Energy Corporation, the largest pure natural gas distributor in the United States, delivers natural gas to more than 3.1 million residential, commercial, industrial and public-authority customers. Their regulated utility services are provided to more than 1,500 communities in 12 states. Atmos Energy is known as one of the most efficient natural gas utilities in the industry.

"HP has consistently provided reliable, scalable hardware, allowing us to optimize the performance of our mission critical applications. With the latest enhancement to the HP 9000 server line, HP provides a valuable platform for our needs today and a stepping stone to Integrity servers with in-box upgrades. HP enables companies like ours to handle planned and unexpected growth through increased flexibility."

Scott Womer
Manager, Systems Engineering
Atmos Energy Corporation

Belkin Corporation

Belkin Corporation, the global leader in connectivity solutions, offers a range of innovations for the computer, electronics, and mobile consumer. With a diverse and far-reaching product mix consisting of home and enterprise networking, audio video solutions, KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) and peripheral sharing, power protection and cabling, and other solutions for mobile computing.

"Adopting the HP 9000 Superdome platform to consolidate our IT infrastructure supports our overall strategy of employing technology that can reduce infrastructure costs and bring operational savings to the bottom line. As we look to the future, we are very pleased that HP provides us continuity with Integrity servers."

Chet Pipkin
Chef Executive Officer
Belkin Corporation

Dex Media

Dex Media, Inc. is the fourth largest directory publisher in the United States. Through their 259 directories, they provide local and national advertisers with industry-leading directory and Internet solutions. During 2003, they printed and distributed approximately 43 million directories and had more than 400,000 local advertising accounts consisting primarily of small and medium-sized businesses and more than 4,000 national advertising accounts. In addition, their industry-leading Internet-based directory solution, DexOnline.com, provides an integrated complement to Dex print directories and includes more than 15 million business listings and 200 million residential listings from across the United States.

"Dex Media is implementing an enterprise operational management system based on the HP9000 Superdome and software from Amdocs. The new PA-8800 dual core processors enable us to further scale these systems without the need to bring in additional servers. The enhanced performance and scalability will provide our end user with greater performance today and as our company grows."

Helen Cousins
CIO
DexMedia

Gevity

Gevity is the leading provider of human capital management solutions, helping clients become more profitable and productive through high impact HR practices. Gevity delivers HR solutions through personal consultation and their advanced HR and payroll community, Gevity Central. Committed to increasing knowledge about their industry, the company took the initiative in this by creating the Gevity Institute, which analyzes HR outsourcing trends through independent research by academic institutions and other organizations.

"Gevity is currently looking to consolidate a number of its HP 9000 and legacy servers onto PA-8800 based HP 9000 servers. The introduction by HP of the new dual core processors will enhance performance and provide greater scalability. This will enable us to consolidate a greater number of servers onto each system. In addition, this will provide Gevity with more agility in how we configure our servers while simplifying the management and maximizing the return on our IT investment."

Mark Zimmerman
Vice President, Information Technology
Gevity

Mitel

Mitel is a leading global provider of enterprise and small business communications solutions and services. Mitel's broad portfolio of solutions provide advanced voice, video and data communications platforms, desktop phones and Internet appliances, intuitive applications for customer relationship management and mobility, messaging and multimedia collaboration.

"HP Virtual Server Environment for HP-UX 11i, including Serviceguard, HP-UX Workload Manager, and partitioning, allow us to maximize the use of our compute resources, while gaining the flexibility to move resources around rapidly in response to changing business needs. We also now have a higher level of availability and resilience than was possible before-all with an overall increase in performance and with a lower total cost of ownership."

David Grant
Data Center Manager
Mitel

PepsiAmericas

PepsiAmericas operates in a strong and exciting industry where their products are a part of everyday life. They make, sell and deliver a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola core brands, Cadbury beverages and other national and regional brands in 19 U.S. locations as well as Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia. In total, the company serves a population of more than 122 million people. PepsiCo, Inc. holds a 41.1 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas.

"From our perspective, it's all about ensuring fast, reliable access to information , so our internal users can do their jobs more effectively. With HP virtualization, we can deliver on that goal and do it with greater efficiency within IT. Capabilities like partitioning, PRM, and Serviceguard provide the flexibility and availability that's critical to our business. We're also looking at HP-UX Workload Manager as a way to automate these tools based on policies, allowing us to respond even more dynamically to change. With HP, we can get more out of the technology–more performance, more scalability and availability, at lower cost."

Thomas G. Corner
Senior Storage Analyst and UNIX Administrator
PepsiAmericas

Pirelli

Pirelli's business is centered on the key markets of Tires, Energy Cables and Systems, Telecom Cables and Systems and Real Estate, in which they are among the world leaders and innovators. For more than a century Pirelli has grown as a truly multinational corporation, deeply rooted in local markets throughout the world and building upon their core sectors.

"This solution give us a fast recovery system and a higher level of flexibility in managing the system. We use Serviceguard to create and maintain a highly available environment. It has meant a massive increase in performance, high availability and reliability of the systems. Combining HP and Oracle solutions in this way will definitely enable us to avoid downtime costs."

Ezio Bombardelli
IT systems manager
Pirelli

SAI Global

SAI Global Limited is one of the world's leading business publishing, training and assurance organizations with offices in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and across Asia. Through its extensive network of auditors, experts and training professionals SAI Global works with organizations to help them build better businesses.

"HP gives us more choices, flexibility, and increased value from our IT investments. With the HP Integrity servers, we were able to simply install existing PA-RISC based software and run it without alteration. That level of flexibility is rare in IT. HP Integrity servers not only provided more value for the money up front, but also allowed us to save money on implementation."

Rohit Dass
Group Director IT&T
SAI Global

Tai Fook Securities Group Limited

Established in 1973, Tai Fook Securities Group is now one of the leading and most respected Hong Kong financial services firms. Tai Fook Securities Group Limited, a publicly listed company on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, is a comprehensive and dynamic group of specialized companies with expertise in securities, futures & options, bullion trading; asset and fund management, rolling forex, margin financing, corporate finance, nominee services and insurance services.

"Our trading customers can now expect faster response times from our core and online trading platforms, doubling the speed of our former server infrastructure. HP is our obvious choice. Not only did they help us build a powerful and scalable IT infrastructure using Integrity servers, they also provided HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) pay per use solution, an offering perfect for companies like us with fluctuating computing demands.

Nelson Ying
Group Chief Technology Officer
Tai Fook Securities Group Limited


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