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Just announced: the first Blade Server Magic Quadrant report from Gartner, released October 6, 2009, places HP in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers. Gartner is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. HP believes that with this report, Gartner has reinforced the pivotal market role of blade servers and their significant growth expectations in the coming years. HP's placement in the report represents our “ability to execute” combined with our “completeness of vision.” To learn more, view the Magic Quadrant report.

Check out HP BladeSystem Matrix, a converged infrastructure solution for server, storage and networking resources that allows you to instantly adjust to dynamic business demands and transform the economics of your data center. It is integrated by design and is an ideal platform for shared services delivery. Learn more.

Earlier this year, Forrester released their first ever The Forrester Wave ™ for Blade Server Systems. Based on an extensive evaluation of several vendors, HP is in a leadership position, due in part to innovative Virtual Connect solutions. Click here to read the entire Wave ™.

As your business grows, so does your need for server management.

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What is a BladeSystem?

BladeSystem is an infrastructure in a box proven to save time, power and money in data centers large and small.

Download this IDC whitepaper to learn how blade servers save you more.

New IDC Whitepaper on TCO of HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 Realizing TCO Savings with HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology - IDC This IDC Report discusses how HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology can reduce management complexity, increase IT utilization, and improve the total cost of ownership (TCO). Server systems and data transfer volumes are increasing exponentially, presenting challenges to IT managers in terms of bandwidth bottlenecks and connectivity costs. IT managers face significant obstacles in their attempt to discover more cost-effective, scalable ways to deal with the increasing complexity of servers and their associated LAN and SAN environments. HP Virtual Connect technology is an interconnect option for HP BladeSystem designed to simplify the connection of blade servers to datacenter networks.

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If virtual servers play a big part in your IT strategy, learn how Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology can cut your network costs up to 66 percent. If with it, you can consolidate your switches 4-to-1, fine-tune bandwidth to your virtual servers and get blazing 10Gb speed at a price less than most 1Gb solutions today.

Want to build a virtual infrastructure for your small business or remote site? Meet Shorty, the BladeSystem c3000!

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Just so you know, HP continuously is evolving its blade product line. Read about what’s new and upcoming in blades.

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What IT projects are on your short list? Replace old servers? Upgrade your CRM, ERP or Exchange? Add a SAN, backup or disaster recovery?

Find out how blade servers and storage can save you more time and money on your next project.

» Free Assessment: Discover your path to a converged infrastructure

» Build your ultimate virtual infrastructure

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» Understand how blades save you money (pdf)

» Create your own blade savings report

» Find other blade customers, resellers and experts online

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Services and Solutions

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Enclosures

Enclosures comes in two sizes for different-sized environments
Custom build your integrated solutions, shipped fully-configured
Built-in management and redundancy for all server blades

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ProLiant Server Blades

Latest multi-core, industry standard processors
No compromise, enterprise-class server blade features
Choice of size, storage and connectivity options
Server blades support same OS & applications as ProLiant DL/ML

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Integrity Server Blades

Brings Integrity capabilities to a c-Class form factor
Designed to complement BladeSystem c-Class
Brings HP Integrity Virtual Server Environment to the c-Class

» Storage Blades

Flexible blade storage expansion and data protection.
Works side by side with Integrity and ProLiant server blades for a variety of solutions from small environments to large datacenters.

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Tape Blades

Integrated data protection for HP BladeSystem c-Class.
Half-height tape blade with capacities up to 800GB of compressed data on a single cartridge.
LTO-2 Ultrium and LTO-3 Ultrium models.
Complete data protection and disaster recovery solution.

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Interconnects

Connect server blades the way you want.
Lower connectivity costs to LAN and SAN.
Choice of industry standard options and familiar brands.

» BladeSystem Adapters
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Local Storage:
PCI-attached Solid State Storage (IO Accelerator).
Connectivity options: Choices to support 1 to 10Gb Ethernet, 4Gb Fibre Channel, 4X DDR InfiniBand, RDMA, TCP Offload, iSCSI, and future I/O technologies.

» External Storage

Fibre Channel and RAID supported on all server blades.
Full 4Gb Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel support.
Choice of DAS, NAS and SAN solutions.
Manage HP storage and server blades with one tool.

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Expansion Blades

Provides PCI-X or PCI-e expansion slots for c-Class blade server in an adjacent enclosure bay.
Ideal for applications requiring hardware acceleration using PCI cards; needing special-purpose telecommunications cards; needing other third-party PCI-X or PCI-e cards.

» Management Software

Built-in Onboard Administrator management.
New Insight Control software to quickly deploy, monitor and optimize server blades remotely.

» Services

Speed server blade implementation, ensure uptime and maximize results of your HP blade server solution

» HP Solution Blocks

A worldwide community of technology and service providers are collaborating with HP and one another to define, deliver and deploy application solutions and value-add components for HP BladeSystem

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