Compaq Makes Aggressive Play for Leadership in High Growth Enterprise Markets With 8-way ProLiant Systems.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 1999-- Targets Exploding ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. and ASP Markets by Offering One Stop Best Price-Performance, Business-Critical Services and Innovative Technologies Seizing growth opportunities in the exploding eBusiness market, Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) today unveiled its new 8-way ProLiant 8000 and 8500 servers and business-critical services that will change the competitive landscape for eBusiness infrastructure, redefine the server marketplace and drive new major revenue opportunities for the company. Compaq's strategic investments in developing 8-way technology and business-critical services are the latest building blocks for rolling out its NonStop(R) eBusiness strategy. Building on its worldwide leading market share of 32.7 percent in PC servers (more than IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Dell combined(1)) and its 28.9 percent market share in web servers (more than Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and IBM combined(2)), Compaq is aggressively targeting the fast-expanding Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (ISP) and Applications Service Provider (ASP) markets. Compaq's goal is to extend its leadership position to the ISP and ASP markets by 2001. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Forrester Research(3), the combined value of the ISP and ASP markets are expected to expand from $7.85 billion today to $27.2 billion by the year 2001. This represents a significant engine for Compaq growth. "Customers are looking to deploy their eBusiness solutions faster, at lower cost and with minimum risk. We will address these needs and drive aggressive market growth in industry-standard computing among enterprise customers through our ability to deliver Business-Critical Services to eBusiness customers requiring 24x7 support," said Enrico Pesatori, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul and Group General Manager, Enterprise Solutions and Services Group, Compaq. "Our 8-way ProLiant servers deliver superior scalability, reliability, and availability, and match the server performance of market rival Sun at one-third of the cost(4)." Leveraging its strength in the Windows NT, SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , Netware, and Linux marketplaces, its strategic partnerships with key industry players, its innovative industry-standard solutions, and its experience in delivering business-critical and integration services, Compaq is well armed to be the vendor of choice for companies deploying NonStop eBusiness infrastructures. "Our customers require a reliable and cost-effective platform that can scale-up to meet their demanding web, e-commerce and messaging requirements," said Deborah Willingham, Vice President, Business and Enterprise Division at Microsoft Corp. "In today's competitive marketplace, the combination of Compaq's 8-way SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. architecture and Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition provide customers a high-end infrastructure with exceptional price/performance, to effectively run their business. The forthcoming Windows 2000 Advanced Server will offer our mutual customers additional availability and scalability enhancements for their Internet-based and line of business solutions." Bobby Patrick, Vice President of Strategy and Product Development, DIGEX (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DIGX) said, "As a leading provider of web and application hosting solutions in a booming market, we have to provide our customers with a competitive and uninterrupted service, 24x7. The deployment of ProLiant 8-way servers in our IT infrastructure means we are always open for business. We are able to provide our customers with leading-edge Internet applications on-demand and realize significant cost savings at the same time." Compaq ProLiant 8-Way Servers Provide Competitive Advantage "Just as Compaq defined the PC server economic value model 10 years ago with the SystemPro server, today Compaq is bringing a new economic value to enterprise customers, ISPs and ASPs," said Mary McDowell, Vice President and General Manager, Industry Standard Server Division, Compaq. "Compaq and Intel co-developed the new 8-way Profusion Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) architecture to provide new levels of power across a broad range of applications. Together, we are driving the whole industry forward by making this architecture available to other server manufacturers." Compaq Profusion-based ProLiant 8-way servers push Windows NT further into the enterprise and offer NonStop eBusinesses innovative technologies, new levels of scalability, better up-time guarantees and price: performance benefits. The ProLiant 8000 and 8500 have been beta tested and optimized for a wide variety of applications at more than a hundred sites making them ready for commercial deployment. Prices for the 8-way ProLiant servers range from $20,000 to $80,000 for configured systems. The ProLiant 8000 server delivered record breaking TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of benchmark results of 40,013.30 transactions per minute at $18.86/tpmC. With this latest benchmark, Compaq now holds the number one position for 8-way, 4-way, 2-way, and 1-way processing in TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. Results by Performance(5). As part of its comprehensive 8-way ProLiant solution, Compaq offers easy to purchase CarePaq service modules that range from 24x7 uptime and 4-hour response time guarantees, to business critical expertise for planning, deploying, maintaining and managing the most demanding e-commerce environments. Compaq Background Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of computer systems. Compaq develops and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, enterprise and network storage solutions, commercial desktop and portable products and consumer PCs. The company is an industry leader in environmentally friendly programs and business practices. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of authorized Compaq marketing partners. Customer support and information about Compaq and its products are available at http://www.compaq.com. Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. (1) IDC's preliminary 2Q 99 Worldwide PC Server shipment (2) ZDMarket Intelligence: ZDMI ZDMI Ziff Davis Market Intelligence (formerly Computer Intelligence) Technology Database, 8/99 (3) Forrester Research: "Internet Services Hypergrowth" - February 1999, "Packaged Apps Outsourcing " - January 1998 (4) Doculabs Webserver Test, July 11, 1999 (5) The ProLiant 8000 was running Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. 7.0 Enterprise Edition and Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition. For more information, please refer to www.compaq.com/8-way |
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