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.

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.

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.

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.