New Balance Runs with HP ProLiant Blade Servers; HP Blades Save Leading Shoe Company Time, Money and Resources to Enable Better Return on IT Investment.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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)--April 28, 2003 HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ) today announced that New Balance Athletic Shoe An athletic shoe is a generic name for a shoe designed for sporting and physical activities, and is different in style and build than a dress shoe. Originally known as sporting apparel, today they are known as casual footwear. , Inc. has implemented HP ProLiant BL20p servers to achieve greater ease of management, deployment and efficiency in its data center. New Balance turned to HP blade servers and technology solutions to meet its needs for a better return on its information technology investment. "The HP ProLiant blade servers provide an effective, affordable way to offer redundancy, fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and high service levels for our applications," said Pierre Baudet, business systems manager, New Balance. "I have full faith in HP's ability to meet and exceed our rigorous requirements -- we have not had the same experience with similar offerings from Dell or 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) ." Using the ProLiant BL20p servers with the Windows(R) 2000 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , New Balance runs several applications including Microsoft(R) SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. and Internet Information Services See IIS. . New Balance also uses the HP blade servers to schedule backup functions of servers such as imaging and re-imaging, in addition to gaining a more efficient use of central processing units See CPU. (architecture, processor) central processing unit - (CPU, processor) The part of a computer which controls all the other parts. Designs vary widely but the CPU generally consists of the control unit, the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU), registers, temporary buffers , input/output and space resources. "HP ProLiant blade servers are part of an adaptive infrastructure for New Balance, enabling their ongoing innovation," said Mary McDowell, senior vice president and general manager, HP Industry Standard Servers. "They have seen immediate benefits from their implementation of HP blade servers, and their infrastructure is positioned for flexible growth with the next generations of p-Class blade servers." New Balance uses HP ProLiant Essentials, HP Insight Manager and HP OpenView HP OpenView was a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and systems management products. In 2007 the entire HP OpenView portfolio was rebranded under the strengthened HP Software name. software to manage the ProLiant BL20p blade servers. HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack software has enabled the company to dramatically decrease its server deployment time from two and a half hours to 15 minutes. New Balance's server requirements have grown but the staff deploying and managing servers has not. "We used to deploy two or three servers per month. Now we may deploy two or three servers in a week but with the same number of IT staff," said Baudet. "We are absolutely thrilled to have ProLiant blade servers and software." The HP platform enables New Balance to run both two- and four-processor HP ProLiant BL servers using the same infrastructure and power currently installed. Future generations of HP ProLiant p-Class blade servers are being designed to leverage the same power, enclosure and interconnect products currently installed at New Balance, providing critical investment protection. New Balance's data center also includes HP ProLiant DL360 and DL580 servers, in addition to an HP StorageWorks Disk Array xp128. Additional information about the HP ProLiant server family is available at http://www.hp.com/products/servers/platforms. About New Balance New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc., headquartered in Boston, Mass., is a leading manufacturer of technologically innovative width-sized footwear and athletic apparel for women, men and children. The range of product categories includes running, walking, cross training, basketball, tennis, adventure sports and kids. Work and hiking boots, sandals, boat shoes and rugged casuals are also available through the company's Dunham Bootmakers division. Dunham joined the New Balance family in Fall 1998. New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. employs more than 2,400 people around the globe and in 2001 reported worldwide sales of $1.16 billion. For more information please visit http://www.newbalance.com. About HP HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP completed its acquisition of 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/. on May 3, 2002. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development and performance of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP's quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended January 31, 2003, and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP's results could differ materially from HP's expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. |
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