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Friday, Jun 16, 2006
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Hardware Marketing - New Products & Services HP launches new `c-Class' blade servers Vipin V. Nair
Server launch New servers to help data centres reduce operational costs and capital expenditure by 46 pc HP to start selling new servers from July; prices to be announced then Co expect new servers to gain substantive market share from rival IBM
Palo Alto , June 15 Hewlett Packard (HP) on Wednesday launched a new design for its blade servers that the company said would help users improve efficiencies and cut costs. The new `c-Class' blade servers will help users, such as data centres, reduce operational costs and capital expenditure by as much as 46 per cent, HP officials said here. The c-Class blade servers, which took HP three years to develop, achieve significant cost savings because they need fewer people to manage the data centres and use up less energy and take less time to configure vis-à-vis conventional servers. "Blade is the fastest growing architecture in the history of computing industry," said Ms Ann Livermore, Executive Vice-President, Technology Solutions Group of HP. "By implementing a simple, `out-of-the-box' design, customers can dramatically reduce the biggest IT cost drivers and barriers to change in today's racked, stacked and wired data centres," she said. While developing the new server, HP factored in aspects such as how to help users reduce their energy bills and salary costs and save other resources, said Mr Paul Miller, Vice-President, Marketing, Industry Standard Servers and Bladesystem. Later in a chat with Business Line, Mr Miller said the company's development team in India played a key role in developing these servers. According to Mr Mark Hudson, Vice-President of Marketing, Enterprise Servers and Storage, one person can man around 200 new c-Class servers in a data centre, as compared to three or four conventional servers. "This would alleviate the dependence on human resources," he said, adding noting that significant portions of IT budgets are now spent on HR aspects .
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