Hp COMPAQ PROLIANT 5500, COMPAQ PROLIANT 4500, COMPAQ PROLIANT 800, COMPAQ PROLIANT 5000, COMPAQ PROLIANT 1200 Compaq Leadership in Server Innovations

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February 1998

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Compaq Leadership in Server Innovations

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Compaq Computer Corporation

CONTENTS

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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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. 1 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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♦ I2O Readiness

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♦ Compaq Recovery Server Option

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♦ RAID

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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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As of November 19, 1996 for x86 servers shipped 1994-1996. Source: IDC Report.

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Compaq technologies continue to evolve to maintain industry standards

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NOTICE

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WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF THE USE

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OF THIS INFORMATION REMAINS WITH RECIPIENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPAQ

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BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE

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OR OTHER DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION,

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DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR LOSS OF

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BUSINESS INFORMATION), EVEN IF COMPAQ HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE

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POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES IN ADVANCE.

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The limited warranties for Compaq products are exclusively set forth in the documentation

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accompanying such products. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting a further or

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additional warranty.

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Compaq, Contura, Deskpro, Fastart, Compaq Insight Manager, LTE, PageMarq, Systempro,

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Systempro/LT, ProLiant, TwinTray, ROMPaq, LicensePaq, QVision, SLT, ProLinea, SmartStart,

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NetFlex, DirectPlus, QuickFind, RemotePaq, BackPaq, TecDECaq, SpeedPaq, QuickBack,

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PaqFax, Presario, SilentCool, CompaqCare (design), Aero, SmartStation, MiniStation, and

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PaqRap, registered United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Netelligent, Smart Uplink, Extended Repeater Architecture, Scalable Clock Architecture,

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Armada, Cruiser, Concerto, QuickChoice, ProSignia, Systempro/XL, Net1, LTE Elite, Vocalyst,

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PageMate, SoftPaq, FirstPaq, SolutionPaq, EasyPoint, EZ Help, MaxLight, MultiLock,

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QuickBlank, QuickLock, UltraView, Innovate logo, Wonder Tools logo in black/white and color,

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and Compaq PC Card Solution logo are trademarks and/or service marks of Compaq Computer

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Corporation.

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Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Windows NT Advanced Server, SQL Server for Windows NT

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are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

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I2O and I2O SIG are registered trademarks of The I2O Special Interest Group.

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Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their

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OVERVIEW

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Compaq is number one in providing customers solutions which match their needs. Compaq

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accomplishes this by providing servers which "innovate within the standard", providing

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advantages of standards-based computing with value-added enhancements. One way Compaq

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shows its commitment to innovation includes its involvement in technology. An example is

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Compaq’s patent growth for 4Q97, which was over 32%.

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Customers have recognized and rewarded Compaq's superior innovations by buying one million

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servers after seven years of server sales far surpassing volumes of x86 servers shipped by IBM,

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Hewlett-Packard, and Digital Equipment Corp. combined as of November 19, 1996.3 These

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server sales illustrate Compaq's leadership in delivering server products that best meet customer

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requirements.

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COMPAQ SERVER EVOLUTION: THE COMPAQ SYSTEMPRO

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TO THE COMPAQ PROLIANT

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Compaq has historically focused on the growing demands for client/server technologies and their

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benefits to customers. In 1989 the Compaq Systempro, the first standards-based multiprocessing

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server, led the growing client server revolution for the enterprise environment. Building on its

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technical expertise and customer focus, Compaq’s creative server innovations continued in 1992

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with the SystemPro XL and ProSignia families and in 1993 with the Compaq ProLiant families.

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The SystemPro XL was the world's fastest PC server and the ProSignia family set a new

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price:performance standard for the PC server industry. The ProLiant servers, a class of database

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and application servers, were the first of their kind to provide customers with a tested, proven,

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and optimized database platform.

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Progressing with industry standards, in 1996 Compaq introduced the Compaq ProLiant 5000

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family of servers that included dual-peer PCI bus architecture and redundant Ethernet fail-over

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(NIC) technology on industry-standard architecture. The two current ProLiant servers, ProLiant

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6500 and ProLiant 7000, offer the newest in industry standards including the PCI Hot Plug and

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Intelligent Hot-Pluggable Power Supplies. The ProLiant family focuses on a common set of

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architectural consistencies including Compaq Insight Manager and SmartStart that guarantee

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ease of operation, service, and training, and other benefits which result in value for the customer.

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These consistencies were developed in 1993 and have been built upon through today.

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Since the beginning, Compaq focused on driving innovations to meet customer requirements.

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The following chart illustrates Compaq's historical progression of industry standards:

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PERFORMANCE

Multiprocessing x86 server on multiple OS's EISA as a standard I/O bus in servers 486 SMP Software management tools for x86

Pentium SMP TriFlex and DataFlow Manager

X86 servers with 1GB memory Server-optimized PCI architecture

Modular 10/100 NIC Pentium Pro-based servers Published the first 4-way Intel TPC-C

(OLTP) benchmark Published the first NT TPC-C benchmark Support for 4GB memory in x86 servers Dual-peer PCI Only company to publish TPC-C

benchmarks for all 4 major database vendors on NT

First TPC-D results for a system under $1,000,000

First to publish a 100GB TPC-D (DSS) on NT

First to publish a 100GB TPC-D with total system cost under $500,000

Highest TPC-C benchmark perform. ever achieved in a four-way x86 SMP under $40

First to break $100 per TPC-C Highly Parallel System Architecture

HIGH AVAILABILITY MANAGEMENT TOOLS/TCO

32-bit Intelligent drive array controller

Pre-Failure Warranty Automatic Server Recovery Dual-channel array

controller designed for x86 servers

One of the first with hotpluggable drives in x86 servers

Redundant power supplies SmartStart support for database software

Industry-standard clustering in x86 servers

Redundant NIC

PCI Hot Plug Redundant, hot-pluggable

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MANAGEMENT

TOOLS/TCO

servers First standards-based x86 server

management tool – Compaq Insight Manager

Remote hardware management board for x86 servers

Integration of Insight Agents with third party management consoles

SNMP-Compliant

SmartStart bootable CD-based OS and server integration tool

integration and tuning Advances in Insight Manager –

Asynchronous Management and VersionControl

Rack Mount Servers and Rack Builder Intelligent Manageability became standard

for desktops, portables SmartStart Replicated Install

Integration Server for software management support

Insight for OpenView/TME10 NetView – “plug-in application for enterprise management consoles

Integrated hardware for remote management (IRC)

Remote Insight Board Servers with in-chassis upgradability to

next generation Intel Architecture Info Messenger - Customized, proactive

web-based notification of Compaq support software updates

Integration modules for management of Compaq servers and clients with leading management software