As part of efforts to simplifying business operations for its teaming customers in West African sub region, Hewlett_Packard (HP), West Africa, last week unveiled new integrity solutions to help customers manage challenges and  improve services.

The product is expected to improve customers’s level agreement performance, provide up to 100 percent application availability and simplifies mission-critical computing for the most demanding application workloads.

Announcing this in Lagos last week, one of the company’s Directors for Africa, El Meliani said the product  launch was part of the one launched in Frankfurt Germany, earlier in the year, where HP officially released the new integrity solutions.
Built on a new HP blade scale architecture that spans servers, storage and networking, the Solutions is said to be capable of delivering  the industry’s first mission-critical converged infrastructure and contains new features and enhancement that can help organizations improve the management efficiency, security and virtualization capacities of their mission-critical UNIX operating environment.

Also speaking at the occasion, ESSN Vice President, MEMA, Mr. Florian Reithmeier said the announcement of the new HP product represented the first major architectural upgrade for integrity superdome, in a decade, and expressed confidence in the ability of the product to bringing a positive turn around operations to organizations that deploy it.

On his part, the BCS Manager for Africa, Mohammed Zizi explained that the unveiling of the new architecture was a partnership between HP and Intel, programmed to allow clients to deploy, automate and manage a components, tools, and processes. With a single management environment, he said clients can maintain consistent control of the entire IT infrastructure.

According to him, the product does not replace the existing blade in the market, but is intended to compliment the old version to achieve greater productivity  and work satisfaction at work place.

“As an existing customer, it is in your own interest to move to a higher modular or remain where you are because it offers you the benefit of moving from monolithic version of server to converged architecture” he added.

To him, the product  launch was a demonstration of  HP and Intel’s interest and commitment in the region and a prove that Africa is the key to investment in technology. He expressed optimism that the investment will increase in nearest future following the launch in Nigeria.

To ensure faster penetration, HP said it had already perfected plans to organize in house training for its customers to make the technology more available and easier in application.

With this new product, HP becomes one vendor that delivers a unified Blade System platform that spans x86 to HP Superdome 2,  and as result HP clients can create data centres that allow them to spend less time on operations, and instead focus their resources on driving innovation to address business needs.

The new Integrity portfolio includes servers, software and services that provide clients: 450 percent improvement in infrastructure reliability, improved performance, and lower total cost of ownership with new server blade, investment protection with the new HP Integrity rx2800 i2 rack-mount server among others.

Meanwhile, the company also announced the  introduced a partner programme (AllinaceONE) at the event.  The programme is said to have the capacity of optimizing solutions across servers, storage, networking and professional services that support a mission-critical converged infrastructure.