HP AlphaServer systems outperform competition

HP sets new records with Alpha and PA-RISC servers

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Committed to continuing to meet the requirements of the most demanding
business, engineering and scientific applications, HP introduces
enhanced AlphaServer and PA-RISC systems that provide customers with
unmatched performance and investment protection. These systems
outperform comparable Sun and IBM systems across a broad range of
industry standard benchmarks.

HP AlphaServer systems

The new AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS and Linux
include faster Alpha processors providing customers with an easy growth
path to meet their expanding business requirements while protecting
their investments.

"We continue to experience very rapid growth in our business. Our
company and our IT environment must be nimble. Initially, we did not
consider changing vendors. However, given our growth and high
availability requirements, the clustered AlphaServer ES45 solution from
HP was simply too compelling to ignore. It provides the utmost in
availability, scales up with ease and was the only available solution of
its type, certified by our software vendor."

David Yu
Chief Technology Officer
The Sporting Exchange (www.betfair.com)

  * A new low AlphaServer entry point, with the new AlphaServer DS25
    system, dramatically increases the performance, capacity and value
    to existing AlphaServer DS20E customers.
     
  * The AlphaServer ES45 system, powered by the new Alpha EV68 1.25GHz
    processor, provides well-balanced performance across a broad range
    of business and technical applications. The new AlphaServer ES45
    system offers the best price performance of any RISC/UNIX server and
    improves on its previous record by a whooping 38%, based on audited
    TPC-C results.
     
  * The new 1.25 GHz AlphaServer SC45 system, with its new system
    software v2.5 release, increases the scalability by ten-fold to 10
    TFLOPS, with scalable features for ease of use, system management,
    and resiliency delivered as a single system image across many
    distributed processors for the upmost in technical computing power
    and usefulness.
     
  * New 1.224 GHz AlphaServer GS80, GS160 and GS320 systems for
    customers that require exceptional data processing power, ultra high
    availability and very flexible, cost effective management. The new
    AlphaServer GS systems deliver greater performance and much better
    price/performance.

All of these systems deliver greater value for customers through their
increased performance, scalability and better price/performance. These
systems are the easiest path to greater system capacity for AlphaServer
customers whether they are increasing the capacity of an existing system
with an in-cabinet upgrade, integrating a new system into an existing
application environment, or adding an additional node to an existing
Tru64 UNIX or OpenVMS clusters.

Improve your business productivity and operations

  * Makes business users more productive with quicker application
    response times and performs more work, faster
  * Enables improving your business operations by obtaining better
    business data, faster

For more information on AlphaServer systems visit
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/

HP PA-RISC Servers

The new HP PA-RISC servers running HP-UX-11i run enterprise applications
better than comparable systems in the market as demonstrated by
leadership benchmark results from entry-level and mid-range servers.

The introduction of the powerful PA-8700+ processor into the entry-level
and mid-range HP-UX servers:

  * HP Server rp8400
  * HP Server rp7410
  * HP Server rp5400

For more information on the HP PA-RISC product line, visit
http://www.hp.com/go/servers