<b>LAS VEGAS, Feb. 20, 2013 – HP today announced new innovations that strengthen its <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/solutions-detail.html?compURI=tcm:245-785656&pageTitle=converged-infrastructure&contentView=business&bold=B">HP
Converged Infrastructure</a> portfolio. At its
yearly <a href="http://h30599.www3.hp.com/gpc?jumpid=reg_r1002_usen_c-001_title_r0001">Global
Partner Conference</a> in Las Vegas, HP unveiled a new HP BladeSystem, HP Converged
Storage and HP Networking solutions, as well as HP Services that accelerate return
on IT investment and enable customers to refocus resources from operations to
innovation.
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Significant shifts in the IT industry,
including cloud, big data, social media and mobility, have added new challenges
for chief information officers (CIOs) in meeting customer, partner and employee
expectations while aligning IT and enterprise goals with limited funding.

The HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio addresses
these growing challenges and leads the industry in deploying and managing
large-scale infrastructures. HP has delivered more than 8 million virtual
connect ports, issued more than 7 million HP Insight Management licenses,
shipped more than 40 petabytes of bladed storage and 50 million switch ports,
and grown to nearly 900 HP CloudSystem customers.(1)
In addition, HP has led the industry in blade server revenue and shipments for
24 consecutive quarters.(2)

Only HP Converged Infrastructure offers customers:

·&nbsp;
An open, standards-based,
heterogeneous approach that integrates servers, storage, networking and
management software.

·&nbsp;
Proven experience of
implementing Converged Infrastructure solutions for <a href="http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/doctype.aspx?doctype=success+story&lc=en&cc=us&keywords=%22converged%20infrastructure%22">customers
around the world</a>-as well as close collaboration with 4,500 <a href="http://h30599.www3.hp.com/gpc?jumpid=reg_r1002_usen_c-001_title_r0001">HP
AllianceOne</a> members and partners who develop complete solutions
built on HP Converged Infrastructure.

·&nbsp;
Comprehensive consulting and
support services by HP and certified partners that simplify IT management,
improve return on investment (ROI) by optimizing IT investments, and ensure a
high-quality customer experience.

”<i>HP pioneered
the concept of a converged infrastructure, and we were the first to deliver
it,” said <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/company-information/executive-team/dave-donatelli.html">David
Donatelli</a>, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Group,
HP. ”But we’re not resting on our achievements, we continue to innovate and
extend the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to deliver the benefits that our
business and government customers expect from us.”</i>

<b>New HP BladeSystem delivers breakthrough
data center economics </b>

Virtualization
offers significant benefits to organizations. According to Gartner, in 2016, 82 percent
of server workloads will be running in virtual environments,(3)
which could increase
management complexity and operational costs.

The new <a href="http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/enclosures/c-class/c7000/">HP
BladeSystem c7000 Platinum enclosure</a>, a key solution within the industry-leading
HP ProLiant portfolio, dramatically improves
performance, efficiency and availability of resources in virtualized and cloud environments.
As a result, organizations can save up to 68 percent in data center operating
costs.(4) These groundbreaking data center economics
are
delivered through next-generation technologies that provide long-term investment
protection and can scale to support growth.

The HP BladeSystem
c7000 Platinum enclosure with the new <a href="http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/infiniband/ethernet/adapters/SX1018/index.html">SX1018
HP Ethernet switch</a>, which provides the lowest port-to-port latency of any
blade switch, is more than four times faster than previous switches.(5,6) HP also is the first in the industry
to provide 40GB downlinks to each blade server for near-real time performance.
This provides the ideal network interface for high-performance clusters or
financial services applications.

HP also introduced the new HP ProLiant
WS460c Generation 8 (Gen8) Server Blade, the only bladed infrastructure that
supports virtualized client solutions with high-density 3-D graphics and eight
GPUs per blade server. Supporting four times more users per host blade, the HP
WS460c lowers costs by up to 60 percent per user compared to previous
generations, to mobilize an entire workforce.(7,8)

<b>HP innovations accelerate move to modern storage
architecture</b>

Unpredictable
data growth and workload performance demands are forcing customers to upgrade
legacy storage architectures. This transition-from legacy to modern,
scale-out storage architectures-represents a multibillion
dollar opportunity for channel partners.

HP StoreVirtual Storage offers pioneering
software-defined storage that is delivered either as virtual storage appliance
(VSA) software or as a converged storage appliance (CSA) on HP ProLiant
hardware. HP has been shipping VSAs for more than seven years and has
distributed more 150,000 VSAs worldwide.

To capitalize on and accelerate the adoption of software-defined storage,
HP announced two new <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/data-storage/data-storage-products.html?compURI=1225885">HP
StoreVirtual Storage</a> systems, based on <a href="http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/whatsnew/proliantgen8/index.aspx">HP
ProLiant Gen8 </a>technologies. Improving
both productivity and efficiency for businesses deploying virtualization, HP StoreVirtual
Storage systems deliver nearly double the performance and capacity density
compared to previous models.

In addition, the new HP StoreSystem, a channel-only midrange storage solution, combines <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/data-storage/data-storage-products.html?compURI=1225854">HP
3PAR StoreServ Storage</a> and HP StoreOnce Backup systems that are preracked for
rapid deployment. Offering primary
block-and-file storage with information protection in a single system,
HP StoreSystem now includes all HP 3PAR platform and VMware software suites to maximize
customer efficiency and agility.

<b>HP </b><b>Technology S</b><b>ervices
simplify, integrate, automate a Converged Infrastructure</b>

With <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/business-services/index.html">HP Technology
Services</a>, customers can simplify, integrate and automate their IT
environments to rapidly respond to organizational change and accelerate time to
revenue.

HP Technology Services is now offering the <a href="http://www.hp.com/go/proactiveinsightexperience">HP
Proactive Insight experience</a>, which enables customers to take
proactive actions as well as automate and manage tasks, resulting in problem
prevention and productivity gains averaging $32,000 per 100 users.(9)

The HP Proactive Insight experience begins
with <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/business-services/it-services.html?compURI=1198281#.URKt9x00XTo">HP
Proactive Care</a>, which provides proactive problem avoidance and direct
access to advanced technical expertise. This service is powered by innovative
support and management technologies, including <a href="http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/whatsnew/insightonline/index.aspx">HP
Insight Online</a>, the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-based management
portal; and <a href="http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/insight-remote-support/next-gen/index.html">HP
Insight Remote Support</a>, which remotely monitors servers, storage and
networks. With the HP Proactive Insight experience, customers can increase user
productivity and achieve a return on their services investment in 30 days or
less.(9)

HP innovations deliver the industry’s
only complete BYOD networking solution

By 2016, two-thirds of the workforce will
own smartphones, and 40 percent of the workforce will be mobile.(10) Yet,
today’s legacy infrastructure requires two separate networks to support wired and
wireless connectivity, resulting in operational complexity and security
challenges.

HP also launched the industry’s only
complete solution that supports growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD)
initiatives. This solution delivers unified wired and wireless management as
well as switching platforms that create a single network for wired and wireless
connectivity.

HP networking innovations also include device
on-boarding and provisioning functionalities through a single management
application, automated security with software-defined networks (SDN) technology,
and mobility connectivity services that further extend the customer benefits of
the <a href="http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/solutions/flexnetwork/index.aspx">HP
FlexNetwork architecture</a>.

To double network scalability over legacy
infrastructure, the new OpenFlow-enabled HP 2920 Switch Series speeds data
transfer by up to 45 percent, while increasing performance by up to 100 percent.(11) In
addition, the new HP 830 Unified/WLAN Switcheliminates
the need to purchase up to 50 percent of traditional network access devices,
including separate switches and controllers, while supporting up to 1,000
wireless devices.(12)

To help customers create
an optimized, scalable wired and wireless infrastructure, HP is offering HP FlexNetwork
Design and Validation and <a href="http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA4-0462ENW.pdf">HP Wireless
LAN Lifecycle Services</a>. These
services provide validated and interoperable high-level designs and device
configurations based on proven HP FlexNetwork reference architectures.

HP’s
premier America’s client event, <a href="http://www.hp.com/go/discover">HP
Discover</a>, takes place June 11-13 in Las Vegas.

<b>
</b>
<b>För ytterligare
information, vänligen kontakta:</b>

Ola Holmberg,
Produktchef HP Networking och HP CloudSystem, 0768 59 82 34, ola.holmberg@hp.com

Magnus
Wetterberg, HP Servers, 0768 594&nbsp;921, magnus.wetterberg@hp.com

<b>
</b>(1)&nbsp;
HP internal calculations.

(2)&nbsp;
IDC, ”Worldwide Quarterly
Server Tracker, Q3 CY2012,” November 2012.

(3)&nbsp;
Gartner ”Forecast Analysis: x86
Server Virtualization, Worldwide, 3Q12 Update,” November 2012.

(4)&nbsp;
HP-sponsored white paper from
IDC, ”Business Value of Blade Infrastructures,” No. 227508R2, December 2012.

(5)&nbsp;
Based on HP internal
calculations as of January 2013. Comparing HP 6120XG with 240 Gb of available
up/down bandwidth vs. SX1018HP with 1,360 Gb available, HP offers up/down
bandwidth that is 5.6 times greater.

(6)&nbsp;
Based on HP internal
calculation as of January 2013 that show HP SX1018 switch achieving a 250
nanosecond response time, compared to 1 millisecond from previous models.

(7)&nbsp;
Based on HP internal calculations
as of January 2012. Four times more NVIDIA Quadro 3000M graphics in the same
enclosure space vs. previous-generation HP WS460c.

(8)&nbsp;
Based on HP internal
calculations as of January 2012. Versus previous-generation HP WS460c.

(9)&nbsp;
IDC White paper, sponsored by
HP and Intel, ”The Business Value of the HP Proactive Insight Experience,” No. 239199,
January 2013.

(10)&nbsp; Gartner, ”The Nexus of Forces Changes Everything: Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo 2012 Keynote,” ID:G00246019, Jan. 10, 2013.

(11)&nbsp; Tolly Research, ”HP 2920 Switch Series: Competitive Performance,
Power Consumption and TCO Evaluation versus Cisco Catalyst 2960-S and Cisco
3750-X Series,” February 2013.

(12)&nbsp; &nbsp;Based on HP internal testing.

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