Bladewatch.com

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080616xa.html

HP today introduced the industry’s first high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server, delivering the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class.

The new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem supports high transaction volumes and provides real-time response capabilities in a cost-effective design.

By combining the high-availability features of HP Integrity NonStop with the cost, change, time and energy efficiencies of HP BladeSystem, the Integrity NonStop BladeSystem is an ideal replacement platform for mainframe applications in industries such as finance, public sector and telecommunications.

Using the same amount of power as existing NonStop server offerings,⁽¹⁾ the NB50000c delivers twice the performance and occupies half the data center space. Additionally, the NonStop BladeSystem offers 35 percent lower total cost of ownership than competing offerings and up to a 50 percent decrease in cost per transaction.⁽²⁾

The server was introduced at the HP Technology Forum & Expo, HP’s premiere technical training event that brings together top customers, partners, developers and engineers.

Very cool, introducing the blade platform to HP’s NonStop solution brings the flexibility of the blade platform to those seeking a NonStop solution and should further the blade message, the possibilities of the blade platform which has to be a good thing. That we can show blade platforms not just in the virtualization and HPC fields where we’re abstracting the hardware from the application, the end user, but that we can have fault tolerant, high availability solutions based on blade servers has to be a good thing for the industry, for the blade movement an in end user choice. I’m off to read up about them, I note they are using the Itanium processors, and have an impressive array of RAM and storage configurations.

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