HP was first to deliver in the UK blade server market with its compact BL e-Class, which set a very high standard in terms of features and processing density. Since then it's gone from strength to strength and the latest Blade System c-Class represents a completely new architecture that has been designed from the ground up.
HP has turned to its SuperDome family and taken concepts from these to improve performance whilst the Himalaya non-stop servers provide inspiration for fault tolerance. Management capabilities come from the ProLiant server products along with their iLO (integrated lights out) features and the c-Class is designed to integrate with all of HP's standard management software.