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Hewlett-Packard
Integrity NonStop Computing
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Docid: 00018681
Publication Date: 2004
Report Type: PRODUCT
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Hewlett-Packard (HP)’s Integrity NonStop Computing portfolio includes
BladeSystem, NonStop, and Integrity NonStop servers, plus server- and
storage-management software and high-volume storage and backup products.
This portfolio was created for large enterprises or organizations, and
includes the NonStop X NS3 X1 system that is designed for small enterprise
businesses as well as distributed computing and test/development
environments. This report describes the product family and provides
support information.
Report Contents:
- Description
- Related Faulkner Reports
- Vendor
- Applications
- Environment
- Support
- Pricing
- Competitors
- Web Links
Description
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Hewlett-Packard Company Profile |
Hewlett-Packard (HP)’s Integrity NonStop Computing server portfolio is
based on the company’s 2002 acquisition of Compaq.
NonStop Computing delivers the mission-critical, converged infrastructure
to provide a flexible foundation for IT environments. These systems
provide 24×7 application availability. Other features include:
- Better-than-mainframe performance.
- Support for workloads requiring 100 percent application availability
and real-time, high-volume transaction processing. - Scalability for real-time handling billions of transactions and
hundreds of terabytes of data. - Full integration with converged infrastructure
Vendor |
Hewlett-Packard Headquarters 3000 Hanover St Palo Alto CA 94304-1185 Phone: (650) 857-1501 Fax: (650) 857-5518 Web: http://www.hp.com/ Type of Vendor: Hardware, software, and professional services firm Founded: 1939 Service Areas: Global Stock Symbol: HPQ (NYSE) |
HP – by leveraging a standards-based and modular architecture – delivers
mission-critical computing via the Integrity NonStop Computing portfolio.
This, in turn, eliminates the proprietary, static silos that have tended
to drive up the cost and complexity of storing mission-critical data in
the past.
Table 1 provides an overview of select products in the Integrity NonStop
Computing family.
Product Type | Features |
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Integrity NonStop BladeSystem |
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Integrity NonStop Servers |
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NonStop Servers |
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NonStop Software |
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Storage |
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Integrity NonStop Hardware
Figure 1 depicts the NonStop X system.
Figure 1. NonStop X
Source: HP
Table 2 provides a comparison of HP’s Integrity NonStop hardware
offerings.
Product(s) | Description | |
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Integrity NonStop X Systems |
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Features a system interconnect based on InfiniBand that Features Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 series processors and supports The NS3 X1 with InfiniBand offers more than a 25 times increase Features the Intel XeonE5-2600v2 series processors, and 2-4 |
Integrity NonStop i Systems |
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Provides scalability up to 16 NonStop CPUs in a single system Offers an in-rack hardware upgrade when migrating from previous Powered by Intel Itanium processors 9500 series. |
Integrity NonStop Systems for Telco |
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Designed to prevent service interruptions and operate core
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Communications |
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Provides scalable connectivity based on industry standards. The |
Storage |
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Part of the next-generation I/O infrastructure for HP Integrity |
Legacy Servers |
BladeSystem Servers
Rack servers
Telco industry servers
HP NonStop S-series products: Rack servers
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Designed for larger enterprises, the HP NonStop platform has |
Clusters |
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NonStop BladeCluster clusters nodes together using NonStop’s |
NonStop Software
The NonStop platform offers an open application development environment,
support for leading APIs such as CORBA, Java, POSIX, Web, and Tuxedo, and
integration with other severs that run on open standards.
The HPE Virtualized NonStop (vNS) platform lets applications be deployed
in a private cloud managed by VMware or OpenStack. It allows users to
temporarily scale up a system to manage transient workload spikes without
having to configure a system to a higher configuration. Users are able to
choose from an array of deployment option for an HPE NonStop workload
depending on what is best suited for the situation at hand.
HP’s Integrity NonStop Software is briefly described in Table 3.
Software Type | Features |
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Application Modernization |
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Application Development |
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Enterprise Software |
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Database |
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System Administration |
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Applications
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HP’s Integrity NonStop Computing portfolio is designed for use in large
enterprise environments, including financial institutions, mobile
operators, telecommunications firms, emergency response centers, global
manufacturing companies, hospitals, stock exchanges, and other public
sector organizations that need to manage critical business processes.
Environment
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HP’s Integrity NonStop servers all run on the NonStop Kernel operating
system, which combines parallel processing with support for a variety of
application programming interfaces (APIs) and services, including Java,
CORBA, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), Simple Object Access Protocol
(SOAP), and XML. It also provides fault isolation that can be used to
rebound from hardware and software component failures, or support
additional server clustering or network expansion without disruption to
application or data base processing. The basic NonStop Kernel OS license
package includes:
- OSS runtime environment and file system
- TCP/IP, Backup/Restore, ANSI, and IBM labeled tape support
- Tape catalog
- Event management subsystem
- SNMP
- FastSort
- Enform
- TGAL
- TForm
- Text editors
- DDL
- TACL shell
- OSH Korn shell
- TAL and pTAL compilers
- HP Visual Inspect software
- Subsystem control facility
- Trace/ptrace
- TSM, the system software configuration management (DSM/SCM) subsystem
- iTP WebServer software
Support
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NonStop servers all come with a one-year, next-business-day, on-site
support hardware warranty, as well as a 90-day software support. Both
basic packages may be upgraded at additional cost, and HP discounts the
cost of any upgrades to reflect the value of the hardware and software
warranty. Among the support options the company offers for its NonStop
line are:
- Mission Critical Partnership – Assists customers by
providing a dedicated senior support team and a customized service-level
agreement for customers, which includes IT service management and
availability consulting. - Critical Service – Provides onsite assistance
integrated with support, including standard repair time commitments,
immediate access to NonStop experts, and priority escalation processes. - Proactive 24 Service – Provides assistance via
proactive and reactive support, including access to NonStop experts and
rapid response to hardware and software issues. - Support Plus 24 – Provides customers with 24 x 7
support for problem resolution. HP engineers assist customers during
coverage hours to isolate hardware and software problems and work to
resolve problems as quickly as possible.
In addition to the NonStop support, HP also offers education courses for
working with the offerings. The company offers training in the following
course topics for the NonStop server platform:
- Application design and development
- Data communications
- Server system support
- Migration from F-Series to S-Series
- Systems and operations management
Pricing
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The cost for HP’s Integrity NonStop Computing products are mostly
configuration dependent. HP asks that interested, potential customers
contact its sales staff by calling (866) 625-0242.
Competitors
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Among the Integrity NonStop Computing family’s top competitors are IBM
BladeCenter, Dell PowerEdge, Cisco UCS blade and rack servers, Oracle’s
Sun Servers and Sun Blade Servers, Fujitsu’s Mission-Critical, Industry
Standard, and Mainframe Servers, Unisys ES series Enterprise Servers, and
NEC’s Fault-Tolerant, Scalable Enterprise, and Blade Servers.
Web Links
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- Cisco Systems: http://www.cisco.com/
- Dell: http://www.dell.com/
- Fujitsu: http://www.fujitsu.com/
- Hewlett-Packard: http://www.hp.com/
- IBM: http://www.ibm.com/
- NEC: http://www.nec.com/
- Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/
- Unisys: http://www.unisys.com/
About the Author
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Sherry Kercher is an editor for Faulkner Information
Services. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science
and tracks and writes about storage, communication networks and equipment,
and Internet technologies.
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