HP today announced that it has refreshed it's entire line of HP Integrity servers -- adding th emost powerful models to date -- to drive down the cost of business-critical computing for customers.

With more than twice the performance of the previous generation of HP Integrity servers⁽¹⁾ and less than half the price-to-performance ratio of competitive offerings,⁽²⁾ these new servers reinforce HP’s long-held, IDC-reported position as the No. 1 high-end UNIX system vendor.⁽³⁾

Additionally, HP has extended the multi-operating system capabilities of the HP Virtual Server Environment for Integrity servers to help customers grow and shrink virtual servers in response to changing business needs. Customers such as

Bovespa, ’s stock exchange, and Lucent Technologies are among those that have chosen the Integrity line for simplified management, secured availability and flexible capacity.

The new HP Integrity rx6600 and rx3600 servers offer mainframe-caliber high availability at entry-level server prices. Available with HP-UX 11i, Microsoft Windows®, Linux or OpenVMS operating environments, the servers provide the most flexibility and capacity in their class.

The HP Integrity rx6600 and rx3600 servers also now include the HP zx2 chipset, which delivers up to two times the energy efficiency of previous generations and slashes power and cooling costs by up to 50 percent. In addition, the Integrity line has doubled its capacity with the new dual-core Intel® Itanium® 2 “Montecito” processor.

“This new server lineup is a key example of HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure offerings, which help customers stay ahead of changing business and IT demands and enable them to build cost-effective, next-generation data centers,” said Peter Hall, Vice President and General Manager, Business Critical Systems, Technology Solutions Group, HP Asia Pacific. “Asia Pacific customers can now respond even more quickly to business requirements with Integrity as a core component of their adaptive infrastructure.”

Multi-operating system capabilities offer a flexible IT environment

Many independent software vendors have embraced the Integrity platform, which now offers customers more than 9,000 applications across industries such as financial services, manufacturing, communications, media and entertainment, and the public sector.

Integrity servers running the HP Virtual Server Environment and a choice of operating systems enable customers to dynamically optimize IT investments across business intelligence, enterprise resource planning, J2EE application services, transactional database, and high-performance technical workloads.

Recently announced HP Information Technology Service Management Assessment and Improvement Services process enhancements further increase uptime and productivity. The HP Data Center Portfolio of Services also increases data center efficiencies for space and power usage. These services help drive down the cost of computing.

The Integrity offerings include HP’s latest OpenVMS v8.3 operating system, currently delivering additional security, disaster tolerance and scalable performance for more than 600 applications, with additional ones added on an ongoing basis.

Benchmarks

HP Integrity servers running Montecito processors and the HP-UX 11i v2 operating environment and Windows recently set world records in industry-standard benchmarks, including:

· Leadership performance for J2EE with HP-UX 11i JVM versus IBM Power 5+ and Sun UltraSPARC for single-node and multi-node Java workloads;⁽⁴⁾

· Leadership performance for JVM with HP-UX 11i HotSpot VM versus IBM Power 5+ and Sun UltraSPARC for Java business workloads;⁽⁴⁾

· Leadership online transaction processing performance for HP-UX 11i and Windows;⁽⁵⁾

· Leadership business intelligence performance for HP-UX 11i and Windows.⁽⁶⁾

More information about HP Integrity systems is available at www.hp.com/go/integrityserversolutions. Details regarding independent software vendor support of these systems are available at www.hp.com/go/integritypartners.