HP announced introduced two unified communications (UC) solutions hosted on the HP BladeSystem to help businesses manage multiple communication tools within a single, consolidated platform.

By enabling customers to host, integrate and manage email, messaging, presence, conferencing and telephony on a single platform, the new HP Solution Blocks for Unified Communications can help increase employee productivity while decreasing administrative workload.

Complementing a recently announced HP Services portfolio, the new solution blocks further HP’s plans to deliver an integrated, comprehensive system, software and services portfolio for unified communications.

The solution blocks combine HP server blades, HP storage hardware, interconnect technology and applications that are based on best practice configurations. Other HP Solution Blocks, such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business continuity, can be flexibly combined. They also can coexist with the UC Solution Blocks within one or more BladeSystem enclosures.

The HP BladeSystem UC solutions are based on Microsoft® unified communications software and the forthcoming unified communications stack from Ericsson on both HP BladeSystem c7000 and HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosures.