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| HP Announces New Server Products HP has announced two new power-efficient HP ProLiant servers and an expanded customer relationship management (CRM) portfolio designed to help small to midsize businesses reduce costs, improve security and manage customer relationships. According to an AMI-Partners report, this year more than 60 percent of midmarket companies surveyed plan to invest in technology specifically for customer relationship management and secure remote access. To address this market, HP has introduced the HP ProLiant BL260c G5 and DL120 G5 servers, enhanced CRM configuration options, Linux-based management tools and remote access technology. The HP ProLiant BL260c G5 offers customers the most power-efficient and affordable server blade in the industry. The BL260c costs 20 percent less and is 64 percent more power-efficient than any other blade on the market. The BL260c, for use with the HP BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 enclosures, is designed for branch offices and remote sites with small or virtual machine environments. It supports CRM, enterprise resource planning, database applications, web applications, file/print services and high-performance computing. In addition, the new HP ProLiant DL120 G5 is the most affordable rack-optimized HP ProLiant server available and offers midsize businesses improved efficiency. The single-processor DL120 features the latest Intel Xeon technology. HP has integrated next-generation server and storage technologies into HP-approved midsize Microsoft Dynamics CRM configurations that can significantly reduce deployment time and support a customer-centric business strategy. Additionally, new Oracle Siebel CRM Professional Edition configurations, validated by Oracle, offer midsize companies an affordable and easy-to-manage solution. To meet the growing demand for robust Linux-based solutions for midsize businesses, HP introduced: • Five HP-approved Oracle database configurations for HP BladeSystem and ProLiant systems running on Linux. These configurations provide support for 75 to 400 users, reduce time to deployment and lower costs. • HP Insight Control Environment for Linux, a complete, easy-to-deploy Linux management solution. It features powerful Linux cluster technology that improves application performance, which can sharpen a business's competitive edge. HP has also announced HP Secure Remote Access, which helps midsize businesses customers create sales opportunities by offering convenient, secure and complete access to critical business information from anywhere at any time. It interfaces with other HP devices, such as desktop PCs, thin clients, business notebooks, tablet PCs, iPAQ handhelds and smartphones. HP Secure Remote Access includes Citrix Access Essentials, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2. As part of a continuing effort to empower channel members, HP has also announced an advanced online configuration tool to help value-added resellers and other channel partners quickly and easily select the best configuration for their customers' business applications. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |