Nina Lytton, president, Open Systems Advisors - HP Integrity ...

Notes: Slide 8: We need products thatgrows as our business grows…• “NonStop server has demonstrated a 98% scaling efficiency over hundreds of CPUs”—The Clipper Group, June 15, 2005, “HP Gives Green Light to NonStop — Adapts Integrity for Failsafe Environments”[http://h20223.www2.hp.com/NonStopComputing/cache/258745-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN]• Electronic payment volumes to double by 2010− A May 2006 study projects the annual number of electronic payment transactions, currently at ~210 billion worldwide, will double bythe end of the decade and is growing at a compounded annual rate equal to four times the expected growth in real gross domesticproduct (GDP). Eastern Europe and Asia-Pacific regions will lead world electronic payment transaction growth, predicted at 21.6percent and 19.2 percent respectively. The Middle East will increase 15.9 percent, and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Alliance)will grow 12.3 percent. The study, sponsored by ACI Worldwide and conducted by Global Insight, Inc., represents the firstcomprehensive, econometric approach to forecasting global payments across countries representing 97 percent of the world’s GDP.[http://www.aciworldwide.com/news/newsdetail.asp?news_id=471]• Massive installations− The world’s largest ISP prides itself on 24x7 "up-time”. HP manages maintenance and support services for more than 15,000 serversfrom multiple vendors, including 9,000 Integrity NonStop, HP 9000, and HP ProLiant servers as well as HP workstations.− Sprint’s NonStop SQL database has been declared the largest in the world—with 2.847 trillion rows of data—in a 2005 independentsurvey conducted by WinterCorp, a prestigious database research and consulting firm. The database row count represents a fivefoldincrease over the largest database winner identified by the same survey in 2003. In 2006, Sprint won the prestigious DM Review 2006World Class Solution Award in the High Availability, Performance, and Systems Management category.— Winter TopTen Programs, http://www.wintercorp.com/VLDB/2005_TopTen_Survey/TopTenProgram.html— 2005 TopTen Award Winners, http://www.wintercorp.com/VLDB/2005_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners_2005.asp— DM Review Award, http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1061197− Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the largest and most diverse financial exchange in the world, handles approximately 70% of itstrades through its Globex electronic trading platform running on Integrity NonStop servers. CME, an early adaptor of new IntegrityNonStop servers, has decided to replace its entire production environment of NonStop S-series servers with Integrity NonStop servers.• “Scalability is a huge issue for us as our order volume continues to grow…. We’ve pushed the Integrity NonStop server as hard as we can, andwe have yet to find the limit.”—John Hart, director of technology engineering at CME− Ten years out of the gate, South African cellular communications leader Vodacom boasts close to 9 million subscribers—significantlymore than its nearest rival in the mobile communications space, and twice as many as the country’s fixed-line monopoly, Telkom SA.• “It’s critical for us to be able to manage the rapid growth and massive volume that continue to characterize our business, and NonStop systemsdefinitely help us do so.”—Ray Oehley, executive head, Billing Systems Division, Vodacom3226 September2006