HP today introduced the world’s first high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server, delivering the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class. The new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem supports high transaction volumes and provides real-time response capabilities in a cost-effective design. By combining the high-availability features of HP Integrity NonStop with the cost, change, instance and energy efficiencies of HP BladeSystem, the Integrity NonStop BladeSystem is an ideal replacement platform for mainframe applications in industries such as finance, public sector and telecommunications.

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Using the same amount of potential as existing NonStop server offerings, the HP NB50000c delivers twice the performance and occupies half the input center space. Additionally, the NonStop BladeSystem offers 35 percent lower total cost of ownership than competing offerings and up to a 50 percent decrease in cost per transaction.

HP today introduced the industry’s first high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server, delivering the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class.

“The new Integrity NonStop BladeSystem provides 24/7 business availability and scalability to our customers through the economies of a bladed scheme factor,” said Ann Livermore, executive vice president, Technology Solutions Group, HP. “This is yet another example of how HP enables customers to manage and convert their technology for better business outcomes.”

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