HP Brings NonStop Computing to Mid-market Customers

HP Brings NonStop Computing to Mid-market Customers

HP today unveiled an entry-level NonStop server system that delivers world-class business continuity and availability to a new segment of enterprise customers. The HP Integrity NonStop NS1000 Server is designed for smaller companies in the healthcare, financial services and telecommunications industries, which increasingly face the same business requirements as their larger competitors: 24 x 7 availability and real-time access to critical business applications. Small and medium-size companies in these industries can cost-effectively meet these needs with the NS1000.

For example, in the financial services industry, the NS1000 can serve as the backbone of ATM and point-of-sale transactions, providing the entire stack of hardware, operating system, software and database in a single solution. “There is a large segment of smaller enterprise customers that tends to be priced out of market for high-end, fault-tolerant servers,” said Stephen L. Josselyn, research director, IDC. “For those customers, the NS1000 server offers significant value and additional choice for application availability and fault tolerance.”

Customers in emerging markets such as Russia and China would benefit from having the superior service levels and availability that HP Integrity NonStop technology provides. Unlike in more mature markets, governments and corporations in these markets are often starting from scratch in building data centers that will meet their needs for the next 20 to 30 years; the NS1000 can serve as a key building block for these infrastructures.

The NS1000 server also supports the high-availability needs of larger companies with distributed installations, such as hospitals with satellite facilities or financial institutions with branch offices. “No competitive offering on the market today comes close to delivering ‘five nines’ availability – 99.999% uptime over the course of a year – at this price,” said Craig Wagner, director, marketing and solutions, NonStop Enterprise Division, HP. “For customers seeking an affordable, continuously available environment right out of the box, the search ends with the HP Integrity NonStop NS1000 Server.”

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