PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 6, 2008 – HP today announced an agreement with Microsoft® that enables HP to sell Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise on mission-critical HP Integrity servers. Available today, the OEM SQL Server agreement enables HP to offer an end to end enterprise-class database solution. Customers who purchase SQL Server solution from HP benefit from a single point of delivery and accountability throughout their solution lifecycle.
Announced at the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference, HP’s mission-critical SQL Server solution consists of HP Integrity servers, HP StorageWorks, software, services, Microsoft Windows Server and now SQL Server.
“Our enterprise Windows customers can now benefit from a single point of accountability throughout the solution lifecycle for SQL Server solutions based on mission-critical HP Integrity servers,” said Jim Jackson, vice president of Marketing for Business Critical Systems (BCS), HP. “Today’s news builds on a strong history of close collaboration between HP and Microsoft, and delivers a solution where customers can deploy and gain the many benefits of this powerful platform with greater ease.”
“With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft made significant enhancements to our acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform,” said Fausto Ibarra director of SQL Server Product Management at Microsoft Corp. “By combining the enterprise capabilities of SQL Server 2008 with the reliable, flexible, scalable infrastructure provided by HP Integrity Servers, we are helping provide our enterprise customers a complete solution from one vendor.”
In addition to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise, the agreement enables HP to offer SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition (server + 5 CALs) and SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition per processor. U.S. prices for an entry level solution that includes the Integrity server, OEM SQL Server, and OEM Windows Server--- delivered from HP, is estimated at $8,700.
HP and Microsoft SQL Server Leadership
HP Integrity is the only platform to deliver TPC-H results on Microsoft SQL Server above the 300 GB scale factor with benchmarks at the 1 terabyte (TB), 3 TB and 10 TB scale factors.¹ The SQL Server on HP Integrity servers is available now and augments HP’s industry leading line-up of solutions – from BladeSystems to Superdome – for enterprise customers.
In terms of SQL Server on Integrity overall, HP has the most scalable Windows server in the industry, benchmarked performance leadership, exceptional availability and an overall lower total cost of ownership (TCO)² optimized for mission-critical environments.
More information is available at http://www.hp.com/go/microsoft08.
About HP
HP, the world’s largest technology company, provides printing and personal computing products and IT services, software and solutions that simplify the technology experience for consumers and businesses. HP completed its acquisition of EDS on Aug. 26, 2008. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/.
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