HP Adds Windows-based Solutions

HP today announced that it has enhanced its enterprise portfolio with new to offer customers greater flexibility, scalability and better performance than that available from competing systems.

"Our title and escrow database must be readily accessible to 15,000 users across 1,300 offices," said Larry Godec, senior vice president and chief information officer, First American Title Insurance Company.

The company is offering Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 as part of its enterprise portfolio, including HP consulting, integration and support, HP BladeSystem, HP ProLiant servers and HP Integrity servers in combination with HP StorageWorks offerings.

As demonstrated by the latest benchmark results below, these solutions offer customers outstanding reliability, breakthrough performance and unmatched scalability.

HP servers running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 are already helping customers such as Acosta Sales and Marketing, Chico's FAS, Inc., and First American Title Insurance Company quickly respond to opportunities and changes in their respective businesses.

HP has extensive experience in delivering a wide variety of technologies - from small-scale relational databases to enterprise-scale business intelligence solutions - that incorporate the full range of Microsoft technologies, including SQL Server offerings.

HP has achieved numerous industry-leading benchmark results, including results released today of a record 64-way, three-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark on Windows® performed with the mySAP™ ERP 2004 solution, that demonstrate the outstanding performance of SAP applications on HP Integrity servers.

The HP Integrity Superdome server with 64-processors running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 supported 93,000 SAP SD Benchmark users and fully processed 9,360,000 order line items per hour.(1) The record result demonstrates the superior performance and scalability of HP Integrity servers for addressing customers' most demanding database and application needs.

"The benchmark results announced today speak to HP and Microsoft's mutual commitment to deliver to customers the highest levels of Windows scalability and performance at all tiers of the data center," said Mark Hudson, vice president of marketing, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP.

A series of record-breaking HP ProLiant benchmark results using SQL Server 2005 are also now available and demonstrate the strong performance of this powerful combination. As of Nov. 4, 2005, TPC-C benchmark results(4) on the HP ProLiant DL585 server took the No. 1 spot on SQL Server 2005 for four-processor systems; it was also the first four-processor system to surpass more than 200,000 tpmC transactions.

The HP ProLiant DL385 server running SQL Server 2005 recently took the No. 1 spot for the two-processor TPC-C benchmark, marking the first time that a two-processor system has exceeded 100,000 tpmC transactions.

"As a strategic industry partner, HP delivers significant benefits to our mutual customers, such as the ability to deliver highly scalable systems and expertise in data integration and management," said Paul Flessner, senior vice president, Server Applications, Microsoft Corp.

A leader in data warehousing and business intelligence implementations HP provides consulting and integration services to build solutions that use SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft analytic tools as critical components.

HP also offers solutions that incorporate the new BizTalk Server 2006 to help customers efficiently and effectively link employees, customers and partners through manageable business processes that help automate interactions - leaving data center managers more time to use IT for business innovation.

With HP's 23,000 Microsoft-trained and 3,400 Microsoft-certified HP professionals, HP and Microsoft help customers achieve a more agile and adaptive business. Using Visual Studio 2005, which is designed to speed application development productivity, HP developers and consultants can develop customer web services and .NET solutions even more quickly.

Developers will realize the full benefit from Visual Studio 2005 in conjunction with HP's 64-bit server technology. With the enablement of the native .NET Framework 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005, enterprises can now easily deploy 32-bit and 64-bit native applications for both HP ProLiant and HP Integrity servers.

With more than 20 years of cooperative engineering, testing, customer service and support, HP and Microsoft share the goal of delivering an exceptional total customer experience at an affordable price.

HP offers customers one-stop shopping for SQL Server with integrated and tested hardware, software, implementation services and business consulting.

A Gold Certified Partner for Windows-based solutions, HP has broad capabilities to assist customers - from defining an enterprise integration strategy, through architecture design, implementation, support and ongoing management.