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Hewlett-Packard Company

Overview: Hewlett-Packard is one of the world's largest computer companies and the foremost producer of test and measurement instruments.

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1-HP Compaq T5730 Thin Client Product Datasheet by Hewlett-Packard Company March 2008 - With the power of a modern notebook processor, the HP t5730 is in a new class of thin clients that are Microsoft Windows® XPe-based.

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A Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - This guide contains elements of automation from the perspective of IT automation frameworks, specifically focusing on those framed by the IT Information Library (ITIL) version 3.

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Accelerating Business Analytics by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - The HP solution for SAP NetWeaver BIA increases performance of the company’s SAP NetWeaver BI software, which runs on HP Integrity Superdome* servers with Intel® Itanium® processors running the HP-UX 11i operating environment.

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Adaptive Network Architecture by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - Networks today need the capacity and flexibility to create rapid yet secure infrastructure access for partners, customers. Read this white paper and learn a new adaptive networking approach.

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Advanced Market Place SM7 Demo by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2008 - Looking to improve service quality? HP has the most comprehensive ITSM solution in the industry. By aligning services, software, education, and hardware around service management, HP delivers a complete ITSM solution.

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Analyst Report: Storage Competitive Test: HP vs. EMC by Hewlett-Packard Company August 2008 - This paper from Hewlett-Packard demonstrates storage administrator efficiencies which can positively affect ownership costs for SAN arrays in the midmarket.

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Best Practices for Configuring and Deploying SAP ERP Using HP Proliant Servers, HP Storage Works 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array, Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server by Hewlett-Packard Company March 2008 - The best practices and additional information presented in this paper clearly explain how to effectively plan for and productively use a fully operational SAP NetWeaver production landscape on an HP server and storage infrastructure.

  view Best Practices for Configuring and Deploying SAP ERP Using HP Proliant Servers, HP Storage Works 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array, Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server research abstract

Best Practices for Implementing Automated Functional Testing Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - By automating functional testing, your enterprise can take major steps forward in your ability to improve automated business processes. Your development and QA teams can increase both the speed and accuracy of the testing processes, and your IT department can achieve a higher ROI from software projects while cutting risk.

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Best Practices for SAP ERP Using HP BladeSystem c-Class Blades by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2008 - By implementing the best practices provided in this white paper, HP has reduced the baseline response time of the SAP workload by 67% with basic buffer tuning.

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Better Business Continuity with VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2008 - VMware virtual infrastructure software helps organizations increase availability by reducing both planned and unplanned downtime.

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Building a Green Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - Robert Frances Group (RFG) believes power and cooling optimization will become the most significant IT issue in the data center over the next 3-4 years. RFG believes there are many actions that can be taken immediately to improve the efficiency of…

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Building, Planning & Operating the Next Generation Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - IDC believes that a true datacenter transformation is taking place and that IT organizations will continue to consolidate the number of sites and number of supported systems and will increasingly place greater emphasis on energy efficiency. This will c…

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Business Customers Find Mainframe Costs Out of Step with Data Center Budgets by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2008 - The study shows HP Integrity servers consumed 41 percent less energy and used 48 percent less space than the IBM z9 mainframes they replaced.

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Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - This IDC white Paper describes basic virtualization, the starting point of virtualization refers to basic x86 server consolidation using virtualization software.

  view Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions research abstract

Canadian Airport Reaps the Benefits of Truly Unified Communications by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2007 - In this case study learn how Halifax International Airport Authority, one of Canada's largest airports, developed and integrated a unified communications solution that created flexibility and efficiency for how their terminal space is utilities.

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Capacity Management: A Continuous Practice for Boosting IT Infrastructure ROI by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - IndependentAssessment offers independent analysis of technology products by Alan Radding, a widely published IT analyst, and writer. In this report the HP Storage Suite is shown to enable firms to monitor, plan, analyze and report on storage usage.

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Case Study - How Tektronix implemented a global database archiving strategy among ever changing business conditions by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - Learn how one company has implemented their global archiving strategy and met statutory and legal reporting requirements.

  view Case Study - How Tektronix implemented a global database archiving strategy among ever changing business conditions research abstract

Case Study: CME Group Achieves Outstanding Throughput and Response Time with HP Integrity NonStop Platform by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - In this case study learn how a CME/Chicago Board of Trade Company, ensured 24x7 availability and optimal performance of business-critical Globex trading system with HP Integrity NonStop Platform.

  view Case Study: CME Group Achieves Outstanding Throughput and Response Time with HP Integrity NonStop Platform research abstract

Changing the SQL Landscape through Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - A special live HP mediacast event entitled Changing the SQL Landscape through Consolidation is scheduled for Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Learn why HP Integrity is the ideal platform for business-critical SQL consolidation.

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Changing the SQL Landscape through Consolidation Podcast by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2008 - Discover an IT consolidation platform that effectively runs applications such as Oracle and SAP.

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Closed Loop Lifecycle Planning: Technology Refresh Cycles for Client Computing in the Context of a Tightening Economy by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - In this white paper, learn about closed loop lifecycle planning and how your IT organization can work around sustainability, the economy, pricing and myths.

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Controlling Risk: Quality Management for SAP® Implementations and Upgrades by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2008 - This paper summarizes the benefits of using HP software throughout the SAP application lifecycle, while focusing primarily on ensuring a smooth implementation, upgrade and goes live with SAP applications.

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Converged Communications Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - In this white paper learn how professional services skills, industry systems integration leadership, plus strategic partnerships with leading enterprise telecommunications system suppliers combine to enable what is commonly referred to as Unified Communicate.

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Creating Energy Efficient Data Centers for Sustainable Business Outcomes by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - This white paper explores technologies and best practice that can help your organization respond to today’s power and cooling challenges in a manner that reduces both energy expenditures and environmental impacts--while increasing computi…

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Critical Facilities Services by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2008 - In this white paper, read how to meet the challenge of designing and operating mission-critical data centers in an era of constrained resources.

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Customer Perspective White Paper: Optimizing Manual Testing with Business Process Testing by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - This paper provides an overview of the product along with practical advice for those who are considering Mercury Business Process Testing for optimizing their own manual processes or moving toward test automation.

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Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 1: Site Selection and Design by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2008 - Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements.

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Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2008 - This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect…

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Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 3: Data Center Cooling Search Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2008 - Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue.

  view Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 3: Data Center Cooling Search Data Center research abstract

Data Center Sticker Shock: Controlling escalating costs by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2008 - Attend this live two-day virtual event, December 9-10, 2008, and determine what IT investments to make in order to control escalating costs and ensure an efficient and profitable future.

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Delivering High Availability and Disaster Tolerance in a Multi-operating-system HP Integrity Server Environment by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - The harm caused by only a few seconds of system downtime can be gauged from inconvenience to bankruptcy to the loss of human life. Learn how to achieve HA and DT objectives in multi-operating system environments with HP Integrity servers.

  view Delivering High Availability and Disaster Tolerance in a Multi-operating-system HP Integrity Server Environment research abstract

Desktop Virtualization: Benefits, goals and approaches by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - This audiocast offers concise information about what your company can gain from virtualizing desktops and the options your IT department should explore.

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Disaster Recovery with the HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway Linux Version and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access by Hewlett-Packard Company December 2007 - This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery.

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Disaster Tolerant Solutions Using Continuous Access for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array in a Vmware Infrastructure 3 Environment by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - This paper describes two deployment types of a VMware tolerant solution, based on coupling key VMware features with disaster tolerance functionality of HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA.

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Distribute Workload for Greater Efficiency and Power Using the HP StorageWorks EVA 4400 with HP Bladesystem and Vmware Solution by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - The HP StorageWorks EVA4400 with HP BladeSystem provides an ideal platform for virtualization, with hardware and software that have been certified for VMware ESX Server.

  view Distribute Workload for Greater Efficiency and Power Using the HP StorageWorks EVA 4400 with HP Bladesystem and Vmware Solution research abstract

E-Discovery: Thriving in the Information Explosion and Recent Economic Times by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - How quickly times have changed. The recent economic downturn and government actions are raising new questions and concerns. How will the downturn impact your e-Discovery, compliance and governance strategies going forward? Is this the time to be reactive or proactive?

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E-Guide: Mid-market Guide to Migrating to Windows Server 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - This E-Guide offers advice on the business value, cost and timing and explains how to build a virtual test lab to ensure your Windows shop is adequately prepared for the migration to Windows Server 2008.

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E-Guide: Storage Choices for Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - When evaluating storage solutions for Disaster Recovery in a virtual environment, there are several aspects you should consider. In this E-Guide discover several concerns to be aware of when planning for disaster recovery in a virtual server environment.

  view E-Guide: Storage Choices for Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery research abstract

Edison Group Paper - EMC, Net App and HP Mid Range Storage TCO by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - This report is based on a combination of hands-on evaluation, review of relevant published documents on storage cost of ownership, and reports on data center and storage administrator salaries.

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Edison Group Study: Comparing TCO in the Enterprise by Hewlett-Packard Company March 2008 - This white paper highlights an innovative storage system that can provide organizations with the benefits of higher efficiency and the ability to utilize less expensive resources through its superior interface and virtualization capabilities.

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eGuide: Blade Servers and Virtualization - Improving Your Power & Cooling Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - This E-Guide provides tips on using blades and virtualization, details new virtualization product enhancements and offerings, and sets the record straight on myths and misconceptions surrounding power, cooling and consolidation.

  view eGuide: Blade Servers and Virtualization - Improving Your Power & Cooling Efficiency research abstract

eGuide: SQL Server Consolidation - An IT Manager’s Guide by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2008 - This E-Guide offers a step-by-step guide for consolidating SQL Servers, also provides insight on why SQL Server consolidation is an optimization technique.

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eGuide: Virtualizing Desktops - Navigating from Theory to Conception by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - The promise of desktop virtualization technology is to centralize applications at the data center to make them easier to manage and provision. In this E-Guide learn how to navigate the challenges of desktop virtualization to make the theory a reality.

  view eGuide: Virtualizing Desktops - Navigating from Theory to Conception research abstract

Energy Efficiency for the Enterprise by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - If we want to be in business in the future, we have to change the way we use power and reduce our impact on the environment.

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Extreme Consolidation: Reduce Your IT Infrastructure Costs in the Most Demanding IT Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - Companies need enterprise class computing power with the flexibility to change computing capacity at a moment's notice. In this white paper learn more about a powerful and flexible solution for consolidating enterprise-class Unix deployments.

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Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring by Hewlett-Packard Company August 2008 - This whitepaper discuss Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring. It explores how end-user monitoring can help improve customer satisfaction.

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Formulating a Disaster Recovery Plan by Hewlett-Packard Company August 2008 - This podcast from VMware and HP showcases the simple steps to looking at disaster recovery and how to implement against the needs and wants within a current storage infrastructure.

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Four Starting Points for Effective Project and Portfolio Management by Hewlett-Packard Company August 2008 - Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.

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Get Personal: Capitalize on Your Subscriber Data with a Unified User Profile by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2008 - This IDC white paper discusses the role of user profile management in the telecom industry. Service providers' (SPs) efforts to manage, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel applications-led services.

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Global Operations Uses HP Thin Clients to Improve Security and TCO by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - Read how the CIO of the world’s largest manufacturer of polyethylene folding tables, chairs, picnic tables, and residential basketball equipment obtained his IT Goal with HP Thin Clients.

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Guide to HP Blade Systems by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - This paper will help financial managers and IT managers understand the benefits of TCO to build a solid business justification for technology purchase.

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Guidelines for Energy Efficient Data Centers by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - In this paper, The Green Grid™ provides a framework for improving the energy efficiency of both new and existing datacenters. The nature of datacenter energy consumption is reviewed and best practices are suggested that can significantly impa…

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Hawaii Pacific Health Consolidates 3 Datacenters into 1 by Hewlett-Packard Company August 2008 - This white paper discusses a real world scenario of how Hawaii's largest healthcare provider consolidated data centers, business processes, and business offices.

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Hospitality ISP Chooses HP Thin Clients for High Reliability Low Cost, Security and IT Management by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - Read how an Orlando-based network provider for the hospitality industry found a reliable, secure, and cost-effective alternative to standard mobile products to provide public Internet access.

  view Hospitality ISP Chooses HP Thin Clients for High Reliability Low Cost, Security and IT Management research abstract

How Celanese Chemicals Leverages SAP Netweaver BI Accelerator for Adaptive Business Intelligence and improves performance up to 150X by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - Spend an hour with Celanese Chemicals, SAP, HP and Intel and learn how you can supercharge your business intelligence with SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator.

  view How Celanese Chemicals Leverages SAP Netweaver BI Accelerator for Adaptive Business Intelligence and improves performance up to 150X research abstract

How Service Providers Can Offer Premium Services and Increase Revenue by Effectively Managing VPNs by Hewlett-Packard Company December 2007 - Read this white paper to learn how to effectively manage these large scale networks to ensure that customers are receiving the level of service for which they have contracted.

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How to Automate Testing without Aggravating Testers by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - You’ve made the decision to automate software testing. Now it’s up to you to make sure it’s done right. That means you’ve got to get your team to accept it. To embrace it. To excel at it. To integrate it into their normal routine. Read how here.

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How to reduce the backup data footprint: Capacity optimization, intelligent data protection software, deduplication, and single instancing - Let's translate by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - After attending this event you should be a better understanding of the optimization market and a greater ability to sort through available options and select the approach or approaches that best fit an organization's use cases.

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HP All-in-One Storage Systems by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - HP All-in-One storage system from HP combines a window file server with an ICSI storage array while including integrated data protection software and a radically simple management interface.

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HP Compaq T5735 Thin Client Product Datasheet by Hewlett-Packard Company March 2008 - The NEW HP Compaq t5735 provides convenient access to server-based solutions, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or to a variety of remote client solutions.

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HP Customer Perspective White Paper: Best Practices for Implementing HP Quality Center Software by Hewlett-Packard Company April 2008 - This paper offers a structured approach to planning and implementing HP Quality Center, an integrated, web-based suite of tools and best practices for automated software quality testing.

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HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - HP wanted technology to power the business, supporting significant improvements in operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, growth and profitability.

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HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Software Continuously Analyze and Optimize Your Adaptive Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - VSE is the world’s first integrated solution that continuously analyzes and optimizes physical and virtual resources in exactly the same way.

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HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem Data Sheet by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - Learn more about the HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem which delivers a high-performance platform with the efficiencies of a standards-based bladed form factor to drive down costs, while supporting more robust applications for busin…

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HP Integrity Systems - The Smart Choice for Your SAP ERP Environment by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2008 - With HP Integrity servers, you gain an adaptable infrastructure for growth that delivers the performance and reliability you need today--together with the scalability you will need to address tomorrow’s business challenges.

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HP Integrity Systems: Family Guide by Hewlett-Packard Company October 2008 - The HP Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio creates the foundation for delivering better business outcomes by enabling you to reduce operational costs, accelerate speed of IT change, and deliver higher quality of service to the business.

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HP Key Strategies for Successful Customer CMDB Implementations by Hewlett-Packard Company August 2008 - To meet the increasing pressures of high availability and performance requirements, many IT groups are adopting IT Service Management ITSM, and change and configuration management CCM strategies. This paper lays out successful approaches.

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HP Key Strategies for Successful Customer CMDB Implementations. by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - To meet the increasing pressures of high availability and performance requirements, many IT groups are adopting IT Service Management ITSM, and change and configuration management CCM strategies. This paper lays out successful approaches.

  view HP Key Strategies for Successful Customer CMDB Implementations. research abstract

HP LoadRunner Software - Tips and Tricks for Configuration, Scripting and Execution by Hewlett-Packard Company July 2008 - This guide is intended to help new users and seasoned professionals learn new ways to design and implement successful load testing initiatives using HP LoadRunner.

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HP Non-Stop Multi-core Architecture by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - Learn about the new HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem, which delivers a highly available, fault-tolerant, linearly scalable system that also dramatically increases performance, reduces costs and complexities, saves floor space…

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HP Services for Data Center Transformation: Consolidation, Virtualization, and Automation by Hewlett-Packard Company June 2008 - This brochure will give you a brief overview of three important strategies HP can put to work to help you transform your data center: consolidation, virtualization and automation.

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HP Simply Consolidation Solution Guide: Your Guide to Shared Storage for Business Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company September 2008 - This guide is designed to help you understand the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers.

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