HP has expanded the HP BladeSystem portfolio with an Integrity blade designed to handle memory-intensive data centre workloads while helping businesses lower cost, save energy and space, and decrease deployment time.

HP Integrity BL870c is a four-socket server blade that combines the modular infrastructure and energy efficiency of HP BladeSystem with the business-critical capabilities of Integrity servers.

"With the introduction, of the BL870c, we can now address the broadest spectrum of workloads with a blade infrastructure in the industry," said Santanu Ghose, Country Manager, Business Critical Systems, Hewlett-Packard India. "This server combines the benefit of blades around cost, time and energy with the proven scalability and availability of Integrity systems. Our commitment to innovation is unmatched and we'll continue our 'blade everything' strategy where it helps customers align their technology with the needs of their business".

According to the release, the HP Integrity BL870c addresses more application workload demands by expanding the Integrity server blade portfolio for the HP BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 enclosures. The addition of the BL870c to the HP BladeSystem family will allow businesses to deploy and manage Integrity or ProLiant servers in a single blade enclosure with a set of common management tools.

HP also has created Solution Blocks for its Integrity servers to allow customers and resellers deploy business critical applications on the HP BladeSystem.