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Hewlett-Packard Company Tuesday announced that GetThere.com, a business-to-business Web travel procurement company (formerly Internet Travel Network), has chosen HP 9000 N-Class Enterprise Servers to run the database for its business-critical Internet service.

GetThere.com, which has been delivering travel services over the World Wide Web since 1995, is a supplier of Web-based travel procurement solutions to business customers and airlines. GetThere.com said it implemented the N-Class systems to provide superior performance and scalability to support the increasing volume of requests to its databases.

The N-Class Makes a Difference

According to GetThere.com, an increasing volume of customer information required more processing power for GetThere.com's Oracle relational database and from the servers that run it. The move to HP 9000 N-Class Enterprise Servers has significantly increased the company's database capacity.

"We chose HP 9000 N-Class servers and the HP-UX(1) 11 operating environment because of their scalability and performance, and especially their ability to handle Oracle database requests," said Eric Sirkin, vice president of Engineering and Operations at GetThere.com. "The HP N-Class servers are ideally suited to run relational databases such as Oracle, which is important to our business. We need massive scalability to keep pace with the growth of customer information on our database servers associated with Internet travel booking. HP's N-Class is the only solution we found that gave us the confidence we need to accommodate increased business demands by providing outstanding performance today plus headroom to grow with a strong upgrade path to future technologies, both PA-RISC(2) and the emerging IA-64 architecture."

The HP 9000 N-Class Enterprise Server is a midrange system ideally suited for business-critical Internet solutions. The server features up to eight of the world's fastest processors, HP's 64-bit PA-8500, and includes many standard features to help companies harness the power of the Internet. It delivers outstanding performance across a number of workload environments.

The conversion to the HP N-Class was completed in June, and since then the company has realized major increases in efficiency.

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