Hewlett Packard servers are used in many corporative environments nowadays. A new blade server from this company is worth of your attention due to some new technologies that are used for its implementation. In the combination with the HP-UX operation system, this hardware can become very efficient for business purposes and tasks solving for modern enterprises.

Although the processors Intel Itanium did not reach their success in the market, they found their usage. Recently, Hewlett Packard announced its first server with the Itanium 2 processor. The name of the new Hewlett Packard server is HP Integrity BL60p. It is installed to the HP Blade system shell the same way as blade servers of a standard architecture, such as ProLiant BL on the base of the Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron.

The Hewlett Packard server uses the operation system HP-UX 11i instead of Windows or Linux. This is a commercial Unix system that was developed initially for the RISC-servers HP9000 and transferred to the Itanium platform later. You can start up to six separated copies of this operation system on the same physical machine due to a specific technology of the logical partitions.

The Blade server Integrity has the Itanium 2 modification with a decreased power supply. This Hewlett Packard server is developed for serving large offices and central offices of big companies. There are strong opportunities for the Unix applications consolidation with the help of loading the redistributions software HP Global Workload Manager. In addition, the Integrity server can be installed in the same shell with the ProLiant BL and it allows starting Windows, Linux and Unix applications on the same BladeSystem.

The HP System Insight Manager Software permits controlling all blade servers of the system; it is a unified solution for the Hewlett Packard server that lets centralized management of the servers that are working under different operation systems with different storage devices and network hardware. In this way, system administrators can implement mixed systems with servers from different producers.

The HP Integrity servers have two Itanium 2 1.6 MHz processors “Madison 9M” with 9MB L2 cache in the standard configuration. The Hewlett Packard server shows a performance of sixty percent higher than IBM JS20 that belongs to the same family.

The HP servers demonstrate high technical parameters in different testing programs and they are powerful competitors for the Intel systems. Many enterprises chose these systems for their information infrastructure implementation. The Development of business environments can pass to another level with the HP modern solutions.

The Server HP Integrity BL60P in configuration with two processors, 4 GB RAM, two hard disks and HP-UX license is supposed to have a cost of five thousand six hundred and ninety five dollars. Therefore, you can choose Windows systems for your network as well. The release of this server is expected for sale in the beginning of 2006.

Software from different developers has full compatibility with the Hewlett Packard hardware. You can use varied HP solutions to implement plenty of information tasks. Actually, you can solve any problem of the modern office information infrastructure, beginning from a document printing up to a technical support of the complex distributed calculations. The ability to use different server operation systems makes this hardware the most efficient and flexible solution that could be used by businessmen.