Monday, 5 November 2007

HP to Offer 2 New Unified Comms Solutions for BladeSystem

Hewlett Packard has 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 will be able to help increase employee productivity while decreasing administrative workload.

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.

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 Solution Blocks for Unified Communications are designed to enable resellers to configure and integrate UC functionality quickly,” said Jim Ganthier, director of BladeSystem marketing, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP.

“They pool both communication and IT infrastructure resources to deliver real savings while providing a unified environment that can be managed locally or remotely.”

The solution blocks from HP, Ericsson and Microsoft enable an important transformation for many customers towards an IT environment that is aligned and optimized for better business outcomes. The solution addresses the end-user situation both inside and outside the office and it is supported by the strongest leaders in their respective fields.

The Solution Block program is part of the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program, a comprehensive community of more than 300 technology and service providers that together are accelerating the deployment of customer-centric solutions on HP BladeSystem.