"Amdocs' experience in implementing HP-UX/Integrity as a mission-critical platform for our market-leading BSS/OSS solutions at top global service providers has proven extremely positive. Extending HP's Converged Infrastructure features to Linux on x86 will allow customers using Superdome 2 architecture to benefit from the cost-effectiveness of x86, while leveraging the platform's strength, scalability and availability."
— Rebecca Prudhomme, Vice President, Products & Solutions Marketing, Amdocs
"Today customers are trying to achieve a level of price performance which they cannot reach on their own while balancing their mission-critical requirements. Converging IT and extending the mission-critical experience to x86 will address this while providing greater flexibility, reliability and freeing up resources for future business innovations."
— Matthew Eastwood, Group Vice President and GM, Enterprise Platforms, IDC
"Intel's continued innovation with a multi-generation Itanium processor roadmap, combined with existing and future mission-critical capabilities of Intel Xeon processors, allow HP and Intel to provide customers with greater flexibility and choice," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. "Together with HP we will be able to give customers the ability to do mission critical computing on their terms, with a broad range of operating systems and applications."
— Kirk Skaugen, General Manager, Intel's Data Center Group
"Customers trust Microsoft and HP with their enterprise computing needs. By furthering our partnership, Microsoft and HP will bring together the world's leading server and software solutions, to let customers harness the flexibility and scalability of Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server on HP Converged Infrastructure for their broad mission-critical computing needs of tomorrow."
— Eduardo Rosini, Corporate Vice President, SQL Server Marketing, Microsoft
"Red Hat and HP have worked together for more than a decade to continuously support innovation in server and Linux technologies. Further extending HP's mission-critical capabilities to x86 environments will enable clients to leverage the application performance, scalability and security provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP for their most demanding workloads."
— Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President and President of Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"All in all, my take is that this a smart move on HP's part and positive for both current HP-UX customers as well as anyone looking for future highly scalable and reliable Linux or Windows platforms."
— Richard Fichera, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Source: HP Expands its x86 Options with Mission Critical Program – Defense and Offense Combined, Blog, Forrester Research, November 22, 2011
"The mission critical server market will undergo significant changes over the next decade including the adoption of more x86 platforms for critical applications. As such, x86 customers are looking for an equivalent mission critical experience to what they have today in UNIX environments. An ideal scenario for customers is to leverage an infrastructure that is flexible enough to evolve and adapt to address their changing mission critical needs."
— Andrew Butler, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
