European Commission selects HP

By Phumeza Tontsi for HP
Brussels, 13 Mar 2013

Hewlett-Packard Belgium today announced that, through the open call for tenders - DIGIT/R2/PO/2011/038 - Mainframe data servers III, it has been selected by the European Commission (EC) to supply HP Integrity servers and related offerings to support critical workloads, including database-intensive applications and other critical environments, across multiple EC countries.

Under the terms of the framework agreement (DI/07120), 14 participating European Union (EU) institutions, agencies and bodies will now be able to acquire new HP Integrity servers based on the Intel Itanium processor running HP-UX 11i v3.

One of the steps of the technical evaluation required benchmark tests to be carried out at HP's Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) Performance Centre, in B"oblingen, Germany. According to the awarding criteria published in the tendering specifications, HP's offer represented the best quality-to-price ratio.

"Fuelled by trends in cloud computing, big data and mobility, mission-critical demands are evolving and increasing," said President Ntuli, Business Critical Servers BU and Sales Manager, HP South Africa. "HP Integrity servers with the HP-UX operating environment will allow the contracting authorities to continue to confidently deploy mission-critical solutions with high levels of reliability, performance and efficiency."(1)

In addition to mission-critical HP Integrity servers, HP will provide associated equipment, including software. HP Technology Services also will deliver services and support, including maintenance and professional services.

HP Integrity servers and the HP-UX operating environment are part of HP Converged Infrastructure, which simplifies and unifies IT with a common, modular portfolio of mission-critical systems engineered to deliver high availability, scalability and resiliency for enterprises' most demanding workloads.

HP Integrity servers are now available for deployment at EC and European Parliament sites in Brussels and Luxembourg, as well as Joint Research Centre sites in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Twelve other institutions located in various EU member states will also be able to take advantage of these new mission-critical systems.

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