Intel® Itanium® 2-Based HP Integrity Servers To Boost Volvo IT

MUNICH, Germany, June 3, 2004 - Intel Corporation and HP today announced that Volvo IT, a subsidiary of leading commercial transport solutions supplier AB Volvo, will deploy a cluster of Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based HP Integrity servers to help increase business and cost efficiencies across its operations.

Volvo IT will deploy servers to power its mission-critical SAP* solution. The Itanium 2 processor-based HP Integrity rx8620 servers running HP-UX 11i will be deployed at the computer operations center at Volvo IT's worldwide headquarters in Gothenberg, Sweden.

Volvo IT has been looking to find a new hardware platform that would deliver the performance to quickly process data-intensive tasks across Volvo IT global operations and provide headroom for future processing needs. Extensive evaluation by HP for Volvo IT at the HP Solution Center in Germany demonstrated that the Itanium 2 processor-based HP Integrity servers delivered leading-edge performance and scalability to help meet the business needs for a reliable and flexible platform.

"When running global applications from one centralized environment, it is critical that enterprise systems can deliver optimum performance as any down time can have an effect on to business operations," said Tom Garrison, director of enterprise marketing, Intel EMEA. "By deploying Itanium 2 processor-based systems, Volvo IT will not only benefit from outstanding performance, but will gain access to a dependable and scalable system that will provide a competitive edge well into the future."

"Companies today face demanding business challenges that require them to synchronize business with IT," said Rudi Schmickl, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage and Servers, for HP EMEA. "HP Integrity servers provide companies like Volvo IT with an unmatched cost-efficient, high-performance, multi-operating system infrastructure that provides the simplicity, agility and value they need to reduce IT costs and complexity and to adapt quickly and easily to changing business needs."

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