HP Announces Comprehensive Line of Services, Products for Microsoft Exchange 2000.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000 Mission-Critical Infrastructure to Provide Always-On Messaging and Collaboration Solutions Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) today announced a comprehensive offering of services, training and products to help customers design and deploy Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. 2000 messaging and collaboration solutions. Through HP's best-in-class services, training, products and software, enterprise customers can now create a mission-critical messaging and collaboration infrastructure based on Exchange 2000 to increase the reliability and availability of their business communications and information. As a Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 2000 Global Launch Partner, HP has worked closely with Microsoft to ensure that Exchange 2000 provides customers with a fully tested, optimized, secure and reliable messaging and collaboration system that allows maximum uptime. In addition, HP and Microsoft are collaborating on numerous Exchange-based application service provider solutions, including HP's Messaging on Tap. "HP's services, training and products make it easy for customers to migrate their messaging systems Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent to Exchange 2000," said Russ Stockdale, vice president, Knowledge Worker Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp. "HP's expertise in designing, deploying and maintaining high-availability environments, and Microsoft's rock-solid messaging technology, will allow customers to create a communication system that will be highly reliable and very easy to manage." "Anytime, anywhere access to information -- through remote accessing, data conferencing Sharing data interactively among several users in different locations. Data conferencing is made up of whiteboards and application sharing and are often used in conjunction with an audio or videoconferencing connection. , real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. collaboration and instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or -- is a fact of life in the new economy," said Nic Di Iorio, executive vice-president and chief technology officer of McCann Erickson McCann Erickson is a global advertising agency network, with offices in over 130 countries and almost eight decades of multinational experience . McCann is a subsidiary of the Interpublic Group of Companies WorldGroup. "HP has been a key resource in helping us design and deploy the Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 environment that our business requires." HP's comprehensive array of services, products and software for Exchange 2000 include: -- Services: HP's Exchange 2000 services include consulting services; global installation and integration; and mission critical support to increase system and application availability. HP's consultants provide migration planning and implementation; server and storage consolidation; and planning and design for unified messaging, Internet service provider and content management solutions based on Exchange 2000. In addition, HP provides IT professionals with classroom training on Exchange 2000 through HP's global network of Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centers, tailored on-site classes and through on line training. -- Products: The HP NetServer systems product line includes high-end systems optimized for large, centralized deployments and departmental and small-business systems optimized for local and distributed environments. HP provides scalable, networked storage solutions featuring the HP SureStore Disk Array FC60 and XP512, which extend control and consolidation of Exchange 2000 data across server platforms. -- Software: HP OpenView offers proactive, end-to-end Microsoft Exchange 2000 management capabilities, including auto-discovery of the entire Exchange environment to provide instant visibility into the health and status of group message flows. OpenView's Exchange management solution can be up and running in days, giving customers the confidence that availability and performance expectations will be met with ease. HP OpenView OmniBack II, HP's storage management software, provides zero-downtime backup for MS Exchange Server 2000 with HP's industry-leading HP SureStore tape libraries. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing computing - computer and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on. HP has 86,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. |
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