HP announces fault tolerant blade servers

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HP has today introduced a fault-tolerant blade server, which it claimed delivers the lowest total cost of ownership in its class.

The HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem is designed for very high transaction scenarios where real-time response is critical.

HP says that the new server’s ‘best of both worlds’ design is the first in its class, as it combines the mission-critical 24/7 high-availability features of its Integrity NonStop with the energy efficiencies and convenience of its standard blade form factor BladeSystem. As such is suitable for mainframe replacement in industries such as finance and telecommunications.

This is an advance on the entry level Integrity blade server offerings released by HP last year,which are not NonStop servers.

HP said that the NB50000c delivers twice the performance and occupies half the data centre space as existing NonStop offerings. It also claimed it offers 35 per cent lower total cost of ownership than IBM z9 mainframes and up to a 50 per cent decrease in cost per transaction.

The NB50000c is available now and HP has announced an incentive program that provides system for free combined with and a year of NonStop platform software to customers who choose to migrate from their existing mainframe architectures.

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