HP's EMEA 'Power to the People Tour' comes to UAE

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HP's EMEA 'Power to the People Tour' comes to UAE

HP's customers and partners experience latest workstation portfolio with the new Quad-Core Intel® processor
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 17th January 2007 - HP Middle East today brought its EMEA-wide HP 'Power to the People Tour' to the UAE, to reveal the new capabilities of its latest workstation portfolio.
The event, aimed at HP's partners and customers across the Middle East, saw HP's range of workstations demonstrate the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 series and Intel Core 2 Extreme® QX6700 processors. The new Quad-Core processors are available on HP's xw6400 and xw8400 workstations and enables certain enterprise application to improve by 48 percent.(1)
The HP workstations are designed to help professionals such as digital content creators, oil and gas engineers, and computer-aided manufacturing engineers achieve shorter project cycle times and greater parallelism in their workflow in a stable, multi-threaded, multi-tasking environment.
'HP and Intel are setting the industry standard for multi-core workstation computing,' said Anil Gandhi, General Manager, PSG, HP Middle East. 'The combination of quad-core power with renowned HP performance will enable customers to take workstations where they've never gone before.'
Power to The People Tour attendees from the Middle East had the chance to experience the advantages of quad-core processor-based workstations firsthand through interactive demonstrations geared toward digital content creation, computer-aided design, oil and gas exploration and computer-aided engineering. In addition, customers, partners and independent software vendors - including Autodesk Media and Avid have participated in the event to share best practices and success stories.
The HP workstations using the Intel Core 2 Extreme® QX6700 and Intel Xeon 5300 series processors feature superior multi-tasking abilities, greater performance on multi-threaded applications, and significantly lower power consumption compared to previous models.
The powerful performance, scalability and reliability of the quad-core processors combined with world-class HP Workstations provide increased headroom for intensive computing applications.
HP workstation customers, including digital content creators, oil and gas engineers, and computer-aided manufacturing engineers, are now able to achieve shorter project cycle times and increased performance in a stable, multi-tasking environment.
More information on HP Workstations is available at www.hp.com/go/workstations.
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About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 670 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Khobar, Cairo, Ramallah and Oman servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.

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(1) Results of the HP ProLiant BL480c on the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark (Certification number 2006080) were achieved during tests performed on Nov. 1, 2006 by HP in Houston and certified on Nov. 10, 2006 achieving a result of 1,806 SAP SD Benchmark users. The benchmark was performed with the mySAP™ ERP 2005 application Release 6.0 running Microsoft Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition (64-bit) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition (64-bit). The benchmark configuration included a quad-core HP ProLiant BL480c, two-way SMP (2 processor / 8 cores / 8 threads), Intel Xeon Quad-Core processor model 5355M, 2.66 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache per core, 4 MB L2 cache shared per 2 cores and 32 GB main memory.
(2) Results of the HP ProLiant BL480c on the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark (Certification number 2006038) were achieved during tests performed on June 3, 2006 by HP in Houston and certified on June 23, 2006 achieving a result of 1,218 SAP SD Benchmark users. The benchmark was performed with the mySAP ERP 2004 Release 5.0 running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition (64-bit) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition (64-bit). The benchmark configuration included a dual-core HP ProLiant BL480c, two-way SMP (2 processor / 4 cores / 4 threads), Intel Xeon Dual-Core processor model 5160M, 3.0 GHz, 32 KB L1 cache per core, 4 MB L2 cache shared per 2 cores and 32 GB main memory. More information is available at www.sap.com/benchmark. All performance comparisons are as of Nov. 14, 2006.
(3) TPC-C results as of Nov. 9, 2006, www.tpc.org: HP ProLiant ML370 G5 - 240,737 tpmC @ $1.85/tpmC - available Nov. 22, 2006 - (2 processors/8 cores/8 threads); IBM eServer p5 570: 203,440 tpmC @ $3.93/tpmC - available Oct. 17, 2005 - (2processors/4 cores/8 threads). TPC-C is a trademark of the Transaction Processing Performance Council.

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