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HP announced that Jordan based Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), part of APM Terminals’ global terminal network, has virtualised its main data center with HP Converged Infrastructure to guard against loss of critical data and keep services available.
The highly available new IT environment with off-site disaster recovery has quadrupled ACT’s system performance while reducing costs, and is considered the ideal model for virtualisation. “ACT is always looking to update its secure, reliable IT environment to ensure the highest levels of service. The new HP infrastructure automates previously manual tasks and simplifies management, which means we spend less time on maintenance.” said Munther Dweik, IT Manager for Aqaba Container Terminal.Read More…

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In the first quarter of 2011, worldwide server shipments grew 8.5 percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 17.3 percent, according to Gartner, Inc. In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the first quarter of 2011 with a year-on-year shipment increase of 2.3 percent for the quarter. This growth was driven by increases produced from HP’s ProLiant brand. HP’s worldwide server shipment share was 29.8 percent, representing a 1.8 percent drop in share from the same quarter in 2010.

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