Budapest, 24 Jan 2001
Hewlett-Packard launched its new service provider offerings, including a plug-and-play Internet data centre solution, to the European and African market in Budapest yesterday.
The three new service offerings were released under the tag "Always on".
Speaking in Budapest, John Saw, HP`s business customer marketing manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: "The requirement for an Internet which is `Always on`, is no longer just a technical issue, but a fundamental business one, especially for the service provider sector."
With this in mind, HP announced the availability of its NetServer LP 1000r and NetServer LP 2000r, two new racked PC servers targeted at the service provider/data centre environment. The NetServers are already being shipped to SA.
The HP NetServer LP 1000r`s 1u (1.75-inch) form allows for up to 42 servers and 84 processors in a two metre rack, serving up to one million pages per hour, or one billion Web pages per day.
This is aimed at Web-hosting, and applications such as proxy, caching, accessing, firewall and load balancing.
HP is touting the LP 2000r as the big brother, aimed at the e-commerce, messaging and collaboration applications.
A storage offering is also now available in SA, in the form of a 1u racked, four-slot disk system, which HP says can store 6TB of data in a two metre box.
A plug-and-play offering takes the form of "e-utilica", which enables service providers to instantly launch additional applications such as pay-per-use storage, application hosting and compute capacity services.
HP says it will complete the offering with an Instant Support service, allowing customers to troubleshoot over the Internet.
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