The European Commission chooses HP for the installation of mission-critical servers

HP Integrity servers, with HP Unix and Intel Itanium processors will be installed in thirteen institutions, agencies and organizations of the European Union for large-scale applications after winning the public tender.

The Belgian subsidiary of HP has announced that it has been awarded the public tender for the European Commission -Digit/R2/PO/2011/038 for Mainframe III data servers- for the provision of HP Integrity servers and related solutions to support critical workloads, including database-intensive applications, as well as other critical environments located in multiple countries of the European Union (UE).

Under the terms of this framework agreement, the institutions, Participating European Union agencies and organizations will now be able to purchase new HP Integrity servers based on processors Intel Itanium que operen con HP-UX 11i v3.

One of the phases of the technical evaluation required benchmarking tests to be carried out in the HP EMEA Performance Center, located in the German town of Böblingen. According to the award criteria published in the competition specifications, HP's offer offered the best quality-price ratio.

As Ric Lewis has pointed out, vicepresident and interim general manager Business Critical Systems HP, “driven by trends in Cloud Computing, Big Data and mobility, mission-critical demands are evolving and increasing. HP Integrity servers with the HP-UX operating environment will enable contracting authorities to continue confidentially deploying mission-critical solutions with high levels of reliability, performance and efficiency”.

In addition to these mission critical systems, the company will provide associated equipment, including software, and services and support will be offered through HP Technology Services, including maintenance and professional services.

HP Integrity servers are now available for deployment at the European Commission and European Parliament facilities in Brussels and Luxembourg, as well as at the headquarters of the Joint Research Center (JRC, by its acronym in English) located in Belgium, Germany, Italia, Holland and Spain. Other institutions located in various member states of the European Union will also be able to take advantage of these new mission-critical systems.

These systems, as well as the HP-UX operating environment are part of the so-called HP Converged Infrastructure, that simplifies and unifies information technologies (OF) with a common, modular portfolio of mission-critical systems developed to provide high availability, scalability and resilience for demanding workloads.