HP Helps Alcatel-Lucent Create State-of-the-Art Data Center
New Marcoussis, France data center transforms IT into competitive Advantage
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 20, 2008 - HP and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU) today announced the successful migration to a new state-of-the-art, Tier Four
data center.(1) Located just outside of Paris in Marcoussis, France, it is the most robust, secure and fault-tolerant type of data center available to date.
Alcatel-Lucent is consolidating its 25 data centers worldwide into six locations by the
end of 2009. The Marcoussis center is the showcase for the company's consolidation
project and is a demonstration of how Alcatel-Lucent's data center operations are being
transformed into business-driven assets for generating new revenue streams.
The new data center supports Alcatel-Lucent's growing and dynamic businesses with
an infrastructure built on its own award-winning OmniSwitch networking products and
HP's industry-standard servers. The center is designed to handle increasing volumes
of multimedia content, automated business processes and new application and service
business models.
In addition, surplus capacity will be leased to other companies through Data IV, the
company's joint venture with Colony Capital, to further reduce the total cost of
ownership of the data center for Alcatel-Lucent.
To ensure the success of the data center migration project at Marcoussis, Alcatel-
Lucent turned to HP Services, the fourth largest technology services organization in the world.(2) HP Services designed and implemented the redundant architecture to enable
data replication, provide continuous availability and enhance systems security.
It also provided a comprehensive thermal assessment, including 3D model analysis, to
optimize power usage. HP consultants assisted Alcatel-Lucent in planning and
conducting the relocation of 850 servers from Alcatel-Lucent's legacy data centers to
Marcoussis.
"The forward-thinking planning, architecture and design of the Marcoussis data center
meets our business requirements today and offers scalability to grow as our business
evolves," said Elizabeth Hackenson, senior vice president and chief information officer, Alcatel-Lucent. "The center is an important addition to the European technology ecosystem and helps set Alcatel-Lucent apart in the market."
Alcatel-Lucent expects the data center consolidation project to reduce the total cost of data center operations by 25 percent before the end of 2008.
"HP teamed with Alcatel-Lucent to turn technology into a source of business and
competitive advantage," said Ann Livermore, executive vice president, Technology
Solutions Group, HP. "HP helps customers manage and transform their data centers
from cost centers into strategic business enablers."
Designed to provide extremely high availability and withstand any single outage as well
as multiple disastrous events, the Marcoussis center houses Alcatel-Lucent's missioncritical applications. It is a showcase of Alcatel-Lucent technology with nearly 250 unique devices implemented, including OmniSwitch Ethernet IP networking, 7670 WAN switching and routing solutions, and security. The new data center puts into reality Alcatel-Lucent's dynamic enterprise concept driven by strengthened relationships, simplified communications and results.
The data center will serve as the primary network operating center to support Alcatel-Lucent's growing application businesses and its Services Business Group, which
supports some of the world's largest telecom service providers.
More information about the Marcoussis data center is available at .alcatellucent.
com/enterprise/en/datacenter/index.html. More information about Alcatel-Lucent
enterprise solutions is available at www.alcatel-lucent.com/enterprise, and more
information about the HP Services' portfolio is available at http://www.hp.com/go/hpservices.
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service
providers, enterprise and governments worldwide to deliver voice, data and video
communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged
broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent
offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for
people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries,
Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most
experienced global services team in the industry and one of the largest research,
technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-
Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France,
with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: www.alcatel-lucent.com.
About HP
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from
individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing,
personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's
largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $107.7 billion for the four fiscal quarters
ended Jan. 31, 2008. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at
www.hp.com.
(1) Tier Four data center specification as defined by Uptime Institute.
(2) IDC, "Worldwide Services 2006 Vendor Analysis: Performance and Growth Strategies of the Top 10," IDC #207370, August 2007.
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