Compaq 108164-003 - ProLiant - 800 White Paper

February 1998
Compaq Computer
Corporation
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O N T E N T S
Executive Summary ........ 1
Overview ........................ 3
Innovations Timeline ...... 4
Recent Innovations
and Benefits ................... 5
Compaq Drives
Standard Value to
Customers .................... 10
Summary ...................... 11
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WHITE PAPER
Compaq Leadership in Server Innovations
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Executive Summary
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With Compaq's long history of innovations in the industry standards marketplace, it's easy to see
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why Compaq is the number one server for customers' needs. Compaq provided more than twice
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as many servers in the worldwide market than the nearest competitor in the first three quarters of
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1997. Within seven years after server sales began, Compaq produced its one-millionth server.
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This far surpasses volumes of x86 servers shipped by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Digital
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combined. These accomplishments illustrate that what customers require in industry standard
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servers, Compaq gives to them.
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Compaq's server innovations began in 1989 with the Compaq Systempro, the server that was the
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prototype for Compaq's family of enterprise-based servers built on industry standards. Compaq's
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innovations continue with the current ProLiant server family, the first in the industry to integrate
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the latest technology, including PCI Hot Plug on selected models. Some major examples of
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innovations, which Compaq introduced to the standard-based server marketplace and have been
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widely adopted by customers include:
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Compaq Insight Manager
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Compaq SmartStart
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PCI Hot Plug
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Intelligent Hot-Pluggable Power Supply
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Virtual Interface Architecture
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Fibre Channel
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I O Readiness
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Compaq Recovery Server Option
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Redundant NIC Technology
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ECC Memory
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Next Generation Microprocessor and 8-way processor support
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Rack-Mount Design
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Unlike commodity-based providers, Compaq offers flexible computing platforms today by driving
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the adoption of useful innovations for higher performance and higher availability into industry-
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wide standards. Compaq delivers systems that provide total value to the customer, unprecedented
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design and engineering technology, key management solutions, and strategic partnering to
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provide seamless integration. This approach is exactly what the customer demands from a world-
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class company. And this approach is exactly what the customer receives from Compaq.
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Compaq technologies continue to evolve to maintain industry standards
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