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Hewlett Packard Case Study: New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.

Overview New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of technologically innovative footwear and athletic equipment for men, women, and children. New Balance depends upon the HP ProLiant BL solution to perform mission-critical business applications at a better return of investment. HP offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of blade servers and technologies to build an ideal infrastructure to meet New Balance’s needs. With the HP ProLiant BL20p G2 blade servers, New Balance can improve data availability, easily scale capacity, and can realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources.

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Publisher	Hewlett Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	March 2004	Downloads	88
Format	Case Studies
Topics	x86-standard Servers, Web Servers, Blades

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