HP dominates global server market

Issued by Arcay Communications for HP

Johannesburg, 13 Aug 2009

IDC recently announced the top 10 server vendors in the industry, with HP retaining the number one position in South Africa and worldwide. HP leads the way in several major categories in the 2009 IDC Server Tracker report, including total server units shipped and BladeSystems and x86 server units and revenue. HP South Africa increased its server-related market share by 5.6%, from 35% in Q2 in 2008 to 40.6% in 2009.

These results emphasise HP's role as a leader in server solutions, producing innovative solutions for all organisations in today's fast-paced economy. “HP's offerings continue to be relevant to the market's needs and anticipate industry trends,“ says Rory Green, Industry Standard Solutions Manager, HP South Africa. “The focus is on next-generation technologies; reducing costs, speeding up processes and optimising customer infrastructure.”

HP's server virtualisation offerings assist in lowering energy consumption and improving business operations. The power of partnering with various software providers promotes customer choice and leverages a variety of advantages; providing core server virtualisation and virtual machine capabilities on HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers.

The company's Adaptive Infrastructure (AI) portfolio of products, services, and solutions drive gains across customer data centres with enhanced IT agility, lower cost of operations, reduced risk through higher quality of service and accelerated growth. HP AI includes Data Centre Transformation solutions, which assist in modernising data centres, allowing customers to decrease expenditure and electricity costs.

Comments Manoj Bhoola, Enterprise Storage and Servers Manager, HP South Africa: “With solutions that strengthen customers' positions and help boost their profitability, HP continues to be a reliable and trusted technology partner for all businesses.”

With a broad portfolio of solutions, HP leverages technologies such as blades, integrated management software and virtualisation. As a result, HP creates solutions that service a wide variety of customer needs, from small to mid-size businesses to mission-critical, cloud and scale-out computing environments.

HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.co.za/.

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