HP announced that it will deliver the next phase of utility computing capabilities through a portfolio of modular offerings including the new HP BladeSystem.

The HP BladeSystem is an integrated environment building on current HP blade servers, services and networking plus powerful new management software and virtualization tools to help lower the overall cost of blades ownership.

HP's modular approach to utility computing makes it easier for customers in volume markets to acquire and integrate the capabilities of the HP Utility Data Center into existing environments and deliver information technology (IT) as a service.

Based on industry standards, integrated blade systems can deliver lower infrastructure costs -- often 25% less expensive overall than comparable traditional rack-mount infrastructures and, with automated control, lower annual support costs -- more than doubling the number of devices that can be managed with the same number of staff. The HP BladeSystem is designed to build on this value by offering overall network management and virtualization through resource utilization and services, changing how customers look at a blade ecosystem.

"HP looks forward to extending the value of our BladeSystem family of solutions together with partners to meet the needs of enterprise and small and medium business customers. In fact, by 2008, we expect that 50% of HP's scale-out architecture business will be based on the HP BladeSystem," said Rick Becker, vice president and general manager, BladeSystem Division of HP.

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