HP expands server offerings to help telecoms reduce costs in telephony and IT networks

HP Middle East today expanded its telecom hardware portfolio with powerful, carrier-grade versions of the company’s most advanced enterprise servers and storage products.

The new offerings provide telecom companies the reliability set by NEBS (Network Equipment Building Systems) requirements, as well as the lower cost and flexibility of industry-standard products.

Targeted at service providers and network equipment suppliers, the products include the HP BladeSystem Carrier-Grade (CG) platform, the HP ProLiant carrier-grade rack-mount server and the HP carrier-grade storage array.
The new products can be deployed in both telephony and IT networks, enabling customers to operate more efficiently as the two environments converge.
“Customers are looking for flexible, open platforms that deliver greater speed, more agility and lower costs,” said Ayman Dwidar, ISS Value, Blades Business Unit Manager, HP Middle East. “With expertise in both telecom and IT, HP provides a family of servers that combines the best of both worlds: the cost-effectiveness of proven IT platforms plus the reliability and performance of carrier-grade platforms.”

Using the most advanced Intel® processors, both the HP BladeSystem and the HP ProLiant platforms double the performance of their predecessors and provide greater energy efficiency. The two HP carrier-grade platforms support a variety of operating environments, including Windows®, Linux, HP-UX, OpenVMS and Solaris from Sun Microsystems.
In addition to blade and rack-mount servers, HP offers a large portfolio of telecom software, services and integrated solutions to the world’s 200 major service providers and network equipment suppliers.
More information on HP platforms for service providers is available at http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/carrier_grade/index.html.

About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 1310 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Cairo, Ramallah, Qatar, Oman and 3 service Joint Ventures in Kuwait, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.

More information about HP in the Middle East is available at www.hp.com/me
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