New HP Integrity servers produce high-availability to small businesses.

New C-class blades, rx2660 models and choices bring Integrity reliability and availability within reach and price bracket of smaller users.

Alongside the latest HP-UX version launch, computer producer HP has launched two new products in its HP Integrity high-availability server range.

A variant of the Blade System c-Class technology found late last year and a latest rack-mountable 2U conventional servers.

The two products use Intel Itanium two processors in both single and dual-core configuration. Both use new cooling fans based on jet engine technology to deliver improved cooling and be power-efficient.

Of particular note is that are the rx2660 is available with both a pedestal fitting kit and low noise acoustics kit.

They allow smaller businesses to purchase a single server of a small number to operate them in general areas rather than building a dedicated server rooms or data centre to house them.

It is again illustrating the emphasis on the small business markets for the new products.

"Integrity and most high-availability server were originally only for the high-end, now we are bringing the same type of technologies to the low-end and mass blade markets," said Markus Berber, Hp Integrity blades strategist at HP.

The rx2660 give smaller IT departments access to heavy-duty HP-UX technologies, such as VSE, HP Serviceguard and HP System Insight Manager, which traditionally has been out of the reach of the small and mid-size company and IT department.

The HP rx2660 also boasts impressive Java benchmarks based on recent SPECjAppServer2004 and SPECjbb2005 standards measuring Java 2 Enterprise Edition application and Java business workloads.

The BL860c servers blade feature an integrated hardware virtualisation engine for application consolidation, which can help drive down the sum cost of ownership and operation of a blade infrastructure to operate virtual servers and virtual application instances. The Integrity BL860c shares the same Blade System c7000 enclosure with others HP ProLiant and HP Storage Works blades allowing you to mix and match existing blade enclosures with the new high-availability blades.