HP Opens New End-User Business Recovery Center To Serve Europe; Also Announces Multimillion Dollar Upgrade to U.S. Recovery Center and Expanded Business Partnerships.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1996--Hewlett-Packard Company today announced the opening of its largest, dedicated end-user business recovery center serving Europe for customers needing backup computing equipment and alternative office facilities in the event of a disaster. Other HP recovery centers serving Europe are located in England, Germany, Sweden, Spain and France. The company also announced a multimillion dollar upgrade to its Valley Forge Valley Forge, on the Schuylkill River, SE Pa., NW of Philadelphia. There, during the American Revolution, the main camp of the Continental Army was established (Dec., 1777–June, 1778) under the command of Gen. George Washington. , Penn., recovery center, as well as expanded business recovery partnerships with Strohl Systems, RPM International and Wang Disaster Services. Located in Queensferry, Scotland's "Silicon Valley," the new end-user recovery center acts as a temporary computing facility for customers who experience an interruption in regular computer operations. Up to 100 end users can be accommodated in the 6,000-square-foot recovery center, conveniently located near Edinburgh, the second-largest financial capital in the United Kingdom. The facility features a fully equipped office environment and can be configured with a range of HP and multivendor computer systems. Customers have the flexibility to use systems that include high-end HP 9000-class business servers, network servers, workstations, desktop personal computers, as well as multivendor systems. For example, HP can ship hundreds of correctly configured multivendor PCs to the site or other locations within 24 hours. The end-user recovery center -- through HP's extensive networking and telecommunications capabilities -- can act as a self-contained site or as a node in a customer's network. Access to HP engineers is designed to help customers resume computer and business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets quickly. "With distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. , critical data now resides at the desktop level," said Bill Cronin, worldwide program manager for HP Business Recovery Services. "So, while traditional data-center operations have always been the focus of disaster recovery plans, desktop computing operations are gaining in importance. The new end-user business recovery center was designed to address these customer needs and to provide customers with a complete recovery solution." The new end-user recovery center joins the worldwide network of HP recovery sites located throughout Europe, Asia Pacific and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Other business recovery programs include mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings facilities, express delivery of replacement computer equipment, restoration of computer operations, rehearsals, training, consulting and planning. INCREASED SYSTEMS CAPABILITIES IN U.S. RECOVERY CENTER In the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , HP has doubled the system capabilities in its Valley Forge, Penn., business recovery center. The multimillion-dollar upgrade includes the addition of three, fully configured HP 9000 T520 UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) system servers, which feature up to 12 processors, 2 GB of memory and 1TB of hard-disk storage. The new and upgraded systems enable HP to provide numerous computer configurations to match customer requirements. "To successfully recover and resume operations in a recovery center, it is critical to have robust system capabilities and capacity -- augmented by configuration flexibility and technical expertise," said Claude Brazell, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. program manager for HP Business Recovery Services. "HP is staying ahead of the curve with these new capabilities so that it can meet customers' increased system requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. ." NEW BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS HP also announced key business partnerships with Strohl Systems, RPM International and Wang Disaster Services that extend HP's business recovery capabilities in the areas of planning, consulting and mobile recovery solutions. Strohl Systems and HP have been combining resources and jointly providing recovery solutions to customers since 1992. Their initial referral arrangement and agreement to work together has grown into a strategic global alliance through which custom solutions, joint marketing and reciprocal training provide even greater value to their customers. Strohl Systems is a global leader in business-continuity planning software and related services. Its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Living Disaster Recovery Planning Systems software, LDRPS LDRPS Living Disaster Recovery Planning System (Strohl Systems Group, Inc. automated disaster recovery planning software) for Windows, is sold in 14 countries, and a German-language version is distributed by HP in Europe. Strohl's Business Impact Analysis Professional is a Windows-based business-impact analysis software application. Strohl also offers comprehensive education and consulting services, rounding out its capability to assist the customer in any stage of analysis or recovery-plan development. Raymond Professional Management Inc. (RPM International, Inc.) and HP plan to work with customers in the Americas to identify cost-effective recovery solutions, to formulate business recovery plans and to audit and test recovery plans on an ongoing basis. RPM is a premier, independent professional consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a specializing in strategic business-resumption planning for corporate operations, data-center facilities, voice communication systems, client/server environments and vital-records management. Wang Disaster Services and HP plan to offer Wang's mobile, "On-Site" disaster recovery center services to customers throughout North America. Wang's "On-Site" Mobile Recovery Center service provides on-demand, 24-hour rapid delivery of a fully configured mobile-computer-room solution for HP 9000, 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) AS/400 and IBM RS/6000 systems and local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) environments. The 48-foot air-conditioned van, with a portable generator on board, expands to provide 10 onboard clients. The mobile solution recovers up to three separate platforms or LAN workgroups simultaneously. It can also support up to 100 remote terminals within a mile in a business neighborhood via communications links. Satellite-based communications links also are available. HP offers a broad range of services to design, integrate, finance, implement, operate, manage and maintain computing environments consisting of multivendor hardware, software and networks. In 1995, HP generated $4.4 billion in service revenue. HP information technology service and support programs are delivered by 17,500 professionals worldwide. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 108,300 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. -0- Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/OPEN A consortium of international computer vendors that was founded in 1984 to resolve standards issues. Incorporated in 1987 and based in London, X/Open merged with the Open Software Foundation in 1996 to become The Open Group. See Open Group. (tm) Company Limited. X/Open is a trademark of X/Open Company Limited in the UK and other countries. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard Company David Barnes David Barnes is the name of a number of people:
e-mail: dbarnes@mayfield.hp.com or The Hoffman Agency for HP Jeannie Barbieri-Low, 617/489-3819 e-mail: jlow@hoffman.com |
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