Introducing the HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem

HP brings proven NonStop 24/7 leadership to the server blade form factor with the introduction of the HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem—the world’s first 24/7 mission-critical computing environment on a standards-based bladed infrastructure.

Double the performance, half the footprint, all NonStop
Available for order now, the Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem offers

• Double the performance in half the footprint
• Reduced IT and per-transaction costs in a trusted NonStop fault-tolerant environment
• A simplified infrastructure and lower total cost of ownership

Combining the economies of standards-based, modular computing with the trusted high availability and data integrity of HP NonStop technology, the Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem has half the footprint of Integrity NonStop NS-series systems, yet delivers up to twice as much processing power per unit of floor space within the same power envelope. At the same time, it preserves the proven, dependable, and highly available attributes of the Integrity NonStop environment, empowering customers to add new capacity to existing facilities at a lower per-transaction cost and a lower total cost of ownership.

New performance-oriented NonStop Multi-core Architecture
Also new is NonStop Multi-core Architecture (NSMA), the performance-oriented system software architecture for the Integrity NonStop BladeSystem. The NSMA integrates multi-core logical processors with Integrity NonStop hardware and software to deliver nearly twice as much processing power as Integrity NonStop NS-series systems. With the introduction of the NSMA also comes the J-series, a new release series of the NonStop Operating System, which has been integrated with and optimized for use in a multi-core architecture environment.

Find out more
Announced at HP Technology Forum & Expo in Las Vegas on June 16, the new system has already been embraced by early adopter CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange).

• To get all the details, see the NonStop BladeSystem announcement web page.
• Read about CME Group’s experience with the new system in the just released Summer 2008 edition of 24x7 magazine. [Note that this URL will be updated with the Summer 08 edition by 6/16]

This news is published on NonStop Computing websites. June 2008.