Following HP's launch of the industry's first fault-tolerant blade server running HP NonStop, Integrated Research announced that its PROGNOSIS performance monitoring software is ready to support the needs of customers adopting this new server technology. Integrated Research has now commenced a Beta program with a number of key customers, including many world-leading financial exchanges in the US and Asia.

    "Management of the HP NonStop server environment is a major part of our business and we are committed to ongoing support of new technology in this market," noted Ben Berger, PROGNOSIS product manager for HP NonStop and distributed server product lines.

    The new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem supports high transaction volumes with all the advantages of the NonStop platform. These new systems now offer twice the performance of existing NonStop server offerings at half the footprint, delivering the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class. Support for the new blade servers will be generally available following successful completion of the Beta program.

    "Some of our customers handle transactions valued at trillions of dollars a day, so these NonStop blade servers will be deployed into the most business critical and complex IT environments. These companies simply cannot tolerate downtime or reduction in server performance. By supporting this new server platform, PROGNOSIS will allow companies using this hardware to have the best NonStop performance management solution available."

    Enterprise customers are discovering they need new levels of availability and access to their data—in real time. HP Integrity NonStop is used by financial institutions, emergency response centers, hospitals, and stock exchanges to deliver better business outcomes. The new Integrity NonStop BladeSystem doubles the performance in half the footprint while providing the same trusted 24/7 NonStop availability, scalability, and data integrity. By leveraging the power of Intel® Itanium® multi-core architecture and the economics of standard modular components, HP helps enterprise businesses boost the performance and efficiency of their data centers while significantly lowering their cost per transaction.

    "We have long used PROGNOSIS to monitor the performance and availability of our critical applications," stated Charles Tang of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange - a participant in the PROGNOSIS Beta program. "Knowing that we can continue to rely on PROGNOSIS from day one if we decide to migrate to the new blade servers is a great comfort."