HP and NEC expand enterprise computing alliance

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HP and NEC on Wednesday announced the expansion of a strategic global alliance to collaborate on joint engineering for mission-critical and blade servers that will increase technology innovation, investment protection and solution choice for enterprise clients.

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Since 1995, NEC and HP have been strategic alliance partners, focused on NEC’s role as a provider of large-scale, mission-critical enterprise IT systems built on HP’s Unix-based operating system, HP-UX.

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Building on their successful collaborations on HP-UX, HP Integrity servers and NEC NX7700i servers, HP and NEC are extending their alliance to include next-generation, mission-critical x86 systems. These servers satisfy increased demands for maximum uptime driven by industry trends such as social, mobile, cloud and big data computing.

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The expanded alliance will accelerate advancements across multiple mission-critical server platforms, including “DragonHawk,” HP’s future, scalable x86 infrastructure based on HP Superdome 2 and blade server technology. HP and NEC also plan to increase worldwide delivery of joint solutions, providing clients with greater flexibility, a broader choice of solutions to match their specific enterprise needs and continued investment protection for mission-critical environments, consistent with HP Project Odyssey.

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