HP Sales Cross $1bn in Integrity Server Solutions

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HP has announced that in the year 2004 the company sales of HP Integrity server-related solutions surpassed $1 billion globally while in India itself it sold more than 500 Integrity server solutions.

The solutions - including servers, software, HP Storage Works systems, and hardware services - span key industries such as financial services, manufacturing, network and service providers, and the public sector.

Richard Marcello, senior vice-president and general manager, business critical servers, HP said, "HP is investing more than three billion dollars into the Integrity server line. This will span research and development, server and system software design, partner-led applications solutions and sales, and marketing. With the technology innovations announced today, we continue to deliver on our commitment to vault Integrity servers to a leadership position in the $20 billion market served by RISC processors."

HP also released new enhancements to the entire Integrity server family with Intel Itanium 2 processors; new integrated virtualization capabilities across multiple operating systems; expanded high-availability and disaster recovery features for HP-UX 11i and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

Hemant Tiwari, director, enterprise servers & storage, HP India said, "Indian customers are increasingly adopting Integrity server solutions because of their robust architectures and versatility. Integrity solutions are ideal for helping businesses seeking to set up a data center and/or a high-performance computing platform."

Software support for HP Integrity servers now includes more than 3,000 applications spanning mission-critical infrastructure, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, business intelligence and high-performance computing to deliver complete solution environments.

Bob Muglia, senior vice president, Windows Server Division, Microsoft said, "Customers trust their mission-critical operations to Windows Server on HP Integrity servers. In collaboration with HP, Microsoft is committed to meeting customers' most demanding data center needs with continued improvements in reliability, scalability and performance."

The full line of HP Integrity servers featuring the new Intel Itanium 2 processors is now available. In-box upgrades are available for existing Integrity servers.

Thank you channeltimes.com

[Slaine]

I'm not surprised there profits are that much, just look at the price of there servers & support contracts.
Granted they are bulletproof but they make sure you pay for it!

Ta

George