One of our customers (an online gaming organisation) chose HP Integrity running Intel Itanium processors because it offered a stable platform for the future. With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 they required a 64bit platform that was scalable and reliable. Consolidation of their scaling server estate presented many issues around space, power and management, HP’s Integrity proposition gave them a solution to all of these business issues.

Microsoft has announced support for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 will no longer be available after April 2008. With this in mind customers running mission critical SQL environments need to re-evaluate their infrastructure and migrate towards 64bit SQL 2005. It also presents an ideal opportunity to consolidate a spiralling server estate with multiple SQL instances.

Intel Itanium based HP Integrity servers offer premier Reliability, Availability and Scalability (RAS) for SQL Server 2005 which results in significant savings around software licensing.

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As one of HP’s longest established and most experienced Enterprise Datacenter Preferred Partners, Repton is uniquely qualified to advise and implement class leading Business Critical Solutions. Combine this with Repton’s market leading commitment to customer service and satisfaction and it’s easy to see why so many large companies have partnered with Repton and HP for so long.

We would like to talk to you about our services and solutions and offer you an onsite SQL environment and hardware platform assessment.