May, 2002 : HP Introduces Combined Blade Server Family
📅 - Hardware manufacturing giant HP (hp.com) announced on Wednesday that it has introduced its combined blade server family, which it calls the industry's broadest portfolio of blade servers and technologies optimized to address customers? needs across enterprise data center, service provider and telco environments.
The combined offering, says HP, encompasses the HP Server BH and the HP ProLiant BL server blade product lines.
In Wednesday's keynote address at the inaugural Server Blade Summit, Lin Nease, chief technical officer, HP Business Critical Systems outlined the company's vision of how the blade server segment will become a high-volume market, and how the new HP is ready to meet the challenge of delivering solutions for more flexible, operationally efficient IT infrastructures.
By providing blade server lines optimized for both enterprise IT and telco computing and services providers, says HP, the company now offers a comprehensive portfolio of blade products, technologies, management software, tools, services and partner company relationships.
"The expanded HP blade server portfolio and our technical innovation and leadership in blade technology and management software uniquely position HP to lead this emerging segment to a volume market that addresses a variety of customer needs," says Mary McDowell, senior vice president and general manager, HP Industry Standard Servers. "Blade servers are the ideal solution for a number of IT environments, providing customers a competitive advantage by enabling them to save time, space and resources and to manage their server environments more efficiently."
The HP Server BH blade product line, says HP, is designed specifically to meet the needs of telco and service provider customers, while the HP ProLiant BL blade product line has been designed to meet the needs of corporate data center and service provider environments for multi-tiered applications, clustering and databases.
The combined offering, says HP, encompasses the HP Server BH and the HP ProLiant BL server blade product lines.
In Wednesday's keynote address at the inaugural Server Blade Summit, Lin Nease, chief technical officer, HP Business Critical Systems outlined the company's vision of how the blade server segment will become a high-volume market, and how the new HP is ready to meet the challenge of delivering solutions for more flexible, operationally efficient IT infrastructures.
By providing blade server lines optimized for both enterprise IT and telco computing and services providers, says HP, the company now offers a comprehensive portfolio of blade products, technologies, management software, tools, services and partner company relationships.
"The expanded HP blade server portfolio and our technical innovation and leadership in blade technology and management software uniquely position HP to lead this emerging segment to a volume market that addresses a variety of customer needs," says Mary McDowell, senior vice president and general manager, HP Industry Standard Servers. "Blade servers are the ideal solution for a number of IT environments, providing customers a competitive advantage by enabling them to save time, space and resources and to manage their server environments more efficiently."
The HP Server BH blade product line, says HP, is designed specifically to meet the needs of telco and service provider customers, while the HP ProLiant BL blade product line has been designed to meet the needs of corporate data center and service provider environments for multi-tiered applications, clustering and databases.
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