Customers and executives comment on the new HP NonStop BladeSystem

“We’re looking for performance. Our expectation of the blade environment, due to its general nature, is that we’ll be able to take advantage of faster processing speeds and immediately apply that to the Globex platform. We expect to see immediate improvement in throughput and response time, with additional gains as the system is tuned. The blade environment is also more compact; it will use less space in our data center, and space is a premium for us.” 
     – John Hart, Managing Director of Technology Engineering, CME Group

“ACI and HP share a significant joint customer base of large banks, retailers, and processors running our applications. We believe the Integrity NonStop BladeSystem platform offers significant opportunities for customers to gain additional throughput by routing more transactions through their payment engines. The introduction of multicore technology should provide a cost-effective way for our customers to gain additional return on investment.” 
     – Don Harris, Strategic Alliance Manager, ACI Worldwide

“Transaction continuity and security are essential to the kinds of mission-critical operations for which global customers choose HP Integrity NonStop technology. At Bowden Systems, we are very pleased to extend these capabilities to the new HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem, which will deliver a new level of performance to the enterprise.”
     – Ron Bowden, CEO, Bowden Systems Inc.

“The introduction of the HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem delivers lower cost, higher performance, and a dramatically more open infrastructure. As an independent software vendor that supports only the NonStop server market, we are extremely pleased with this development—and we strongly believe that our customers will be equally impressed with the quality and performance of the new system.”
     – Harry Scott, Co-founder, Carr Scott Software Incorporated

 “The HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem will usher in the next generation of affordability, availability, and performance in NonStop computing. By streamlining the time and expense required to integrate HP applications with the broader IT infrastructure, comForte enables organizations to more fully leverage the benefits of both the Integrity NonStop BladeSystem and of their existing investments.”
     – Thomas Burg, CTO, comForte GmbH

“Integrated Research strives to develop and deliver the best and most precise performance monitoring solutions available for the HP NonStop system environment. With the introduction of the HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem, customers will continue to enjoy the real-time performance monitoring, data recording, and alerting for which PROGNOSIS is known around the world.”
     – Ben Berger, Product Manager, Platform and Application Management, Integrated Research

“Logica’s rock-solid legacy modernization approach gives our customers low-risk, in-place migration of the critical applications they rely on for their day-to-day survival. We help protect their investments, mitigate risk, and create a solid foundation for the future built on standardized data access and SOA. We are excited by the powerful combination of HP NonStop BladeSystem’s industrial-strength availability, coupled with open and service oriented architectures. The lower TCO of the NonStop BladeSystem also creates opportunities for a broader array of clients who crave a low-risk path for migration and growth.”
     – Jeremy Schutte, Senior Vice President Financial Services Division, Logica North America

“By optimizing the performance of their applications on a standards-based platform, the HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem will enable users to cost-effectively accelerate the growth of their business. Opsol applications—built on a service-oriented architecture model for maximum flexibility at the lowest cost—fit well into the blades infrastructure. This provides an evolutionary path forward, protecting customer investment and mitigating business risk. The Integrity NonStop BladeSystem will offer the highest levels of performance for our applications, while still providing the availability customers require for their critical applications.”
     – Yash Kapadia, CEO, Opsol Integrators 

 “XYPRO is excited about HP’s evolution to HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem technology, with its remarkable performance increase and even greater leverage of industry-standard components. Running on this new platform, our XYGATE software will continue to facilitate security and compliance for our customers’ mission-critical operations.”
     – Lisa Partridge, Vice President, XYPRO

Double the performance, half the footprint, 100% NonStop.
     – Winston Prather, Vice President and General Manager, HP’s NonStop Enterprise Division

“When you think about blades, you think about ease of manageability, better price/performance, increased density, greater energy efficiency. The NonStop BladeSystem platform delivers all of these attributes, along with the world-class availability and scalability that NonStop technology has always been known for.”
     – Bob Kossler, Director of Strategy and Planning, HP’s NonStop Enterprise Division

“This is how people are building out their data centers today. They’re moving to a ‘greener’ approach that is far more standard and takes less power, cooling, and floor space. The NonStop BladeSystem leverages volume economics and satisfies the need for business-critical computing capabilities.”
     – Randy Meyer, Director of Product Management, Strategy & Technology, HP’s NonStop Enterprise Division

“With the NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem as part of its portfolio, HP is now unique in the industry with fully integrated, comprehensive offerings in the blade space—from the simplest open source Web server all the way to mainframe-class computing.”
     – Randy Meyer, Director of Product Management, Strategy & Technology, HP’s NonStop Enterprise Division

“The system leverages the economics of modular, standards-based hardware and integrated software, while simultaneously unleashing multicore performance. We are now well positioned to ride that performance wave.”
     – Randy Meyer, Director of Product Management, Strategy & Technology, HP’s NonStop Enterprise Division

“This gives our customers a more cost-efficient way to deploy that mission-critical architecture. They will be able to make changes to their infrastructure much more quickly and with fewer resources. It will take less energy, and it will be easier to manage. I’m very excited about the HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem, because it expands HP’s successful ‘blade everything’ strategy.”
     – Mark Potter, VP and General Manager of HP BladeSystems