HP ships one millionth blade server

HP

GENEVA, July 31, 2008 – HP today announced that it has shipped its one millionth blade server demonstrating its strong leadership position in the server market’s fastest growing segment. According to IDC, HP continues to be the leader in revenue and shipments for the blade market due to grow 45 percent in 20081.

Thomas Meyer, VP IDC EMEA Systems Research states that “blades have developed into a mature technology in the datacenter. When asking IT decision makers for the main reasons for investments in blades, they cite reliability, scalability, manageability and TCO/ROI as the top 4 reasons. At the same time, the improvements in features and functions, combo solutions including servers and storage as well as improvements in the software stack drive the blade proposition further downstream, making it increasingly viable for SMBs.”

More and more small, midsized and large enterprises choose HP BladeSystem c-Class servers to help reduce costs, save time, speed change and improve energy efficiency.

With less energy usage than traditional rack servers, HP blade servers can save up to 47.9 percent2 compared to traditional 1U rack mount servers. HP’s innovative Thermal Logic technology enables accurate monitoring and control, and the ability to pool, share and allocate the right amount of power and cooling to match customer demands.

Building on its “blade everything” strategy, HP recently introduced the Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem, the ProLiant BL2×220c and the ProLiant BL260c demonstrating unique innovation leadership.

Blade sales continue to do well and HP has achieved it’s millionth blade server illustrating the demands and opportunities for the blade platform as well as their components; memory/adapter cards/switches etc. Well done to HP. It will be interesting to see how the other vendors do going forward, and what innovations we’ll see in the near future.