HP intros fault-tolerant blade server

Hewlett Packard (HP) has introduced its fault-tolerant blade server that supports high transaction volumes and provides real-time response capabilities in a cost-effective design.

The new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem is an ideal replacement platform for mainframe applications in industries such as finance, public sector and telecommunications.

Using the same amount of power as existing NonStop server offerings, the NB50000c delivers twice the performance and occupies half the data center space, besides offering 35 per cent lower total cost of ownership than competing offerings and up to a 50 per cent decrease in cost per transaction.

“The new Integrity NonStop BladeSystem provides 24/7 business availability and scalability to our customers through the economies of a bladed form factor,” HP’s Technology Solutions Group Executive VP Ann Livermore said.

Supporting high volumes of mission-critical transaction processing, the new BladeSystem offers a new way to transition customers’ most-demanding applications onto a highly efficient and modular form factor.

The NonStop operating environment offered on a standards-based blade design ensures the highest levels of reliability, while its fault-containment design protects data while error-recovery features eliminate downtime.

The new system features double the processing power in half the physical footprint through multi-core technology and HP BladeSystem.

It comes with a patented 24/7 fault-tolerant software built on standard components for reduced cost of ownership, HP said in statement.