HP announced that 40 European customers have successfully migrated in the past year from legacy mainframe systems to HP Integrity servers, achieving data centre cost savings of up to 70 per cent.

Increasingly, companies are migrating from mainframes to HP Integrity servers for mission-critical IT operations in an effort to reduce high hardware operating and software licensing costs. HP expects to help migrate an additional 125 European companies in the next 12 months.

HP’s continued strong market share position is further evidence of customer confidence in HP Integrity servers as an alternative to mainframes. According to IDC, HP tied for the top position in revenue for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Enterprise server market, securing 32.7 per cent market share as measured in the second quarter of 2008. HP Integrity servers represented the majority of HP’s Business Critical Systems revenue in EMEA, with 78 per cent share in the third quarter of fiscal year 2008.

Companies of different sizes and from different industries gain quantifiable results by migrating to HP Integrity systems. In addition to HP’s success with transitioning customers to Integrity servers, the product line itself has recently expanded to include these innovations:

• New operating environments for HP-UX 11i v3 with built-in virtualisation software to simplify and speed up customers’ UNIX deployments and help reduce maintenance costs.

• QuickTransit for Solaris/ SPARC-to-Linux/Itanium on HP Integrity servers helps users move enterprise applications from SPARC-based hardware to HP Integrity servers running HP-UX or Linux.

• HP Integrity BL870c – the first four-socket HP Integrity server blade that combines support for mission-critical applications with the modular infrastructure and energy efficiency of HP BladeSystem. The server can save up to 25 per cent in power usage.

• HP Insight Dynamics – VSE – provides the first integrated server management solution that allows customers to visualise, plan and change their physical and virtual resources on demand.

• HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem – the first 24/7 fault-tolerant system that uses a blade server for maximum uptime and efficiency.