HP ANNOUNCES NEW, HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETSERVER LS SERIES

New High-end NetServer Line from HP Combines Single to Four-way
Multiprocessing with Dual PCI Peer Buses and Intel Pentium 133-MHz for a
Next-generation Performance Platform

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 12, 1995 -- Hewlett-Packard Company today
introduced the HP NetServer LS Series -- high-performance network servers
scaleable from single-processor Intel Pentium/75 systems to quad symmetric
multiprocessor Pentium/100 and Pentium/133 systems with dual PCI Peer
buses. These high-end servers provide a fault-tolerant platform for
high-end, business-critical LAN environments.

"This new series is one of the first Pentium 133MHz multiprocessor series
available in the industry," said James P. McDonnell, worldwide marketing
manager of HP's Network Server Division. "High-performance processors and
a system architecture that's designed from the ground up deliver the
performance needed to meet or beat the requirements of the most demanding
businesses."

The HP NetServer LS2 5/100 and 5/133, HP's dual-processor Pentium models,
offer customers industry-leading price/performance. With TPC benchmarks
that break the 400-tpsB level, the NetServer LS2 5/100 achieved an
outstanding 371 tpsB with an associated cost under $300 per tpsB. The
NetServer LS2 5/133 delivered an impressive 419 tpsB at the low cost of
$259 per tpsB.

The introduction of the NetServer LS makes HP the first major computer
vendor in the industry to offer a complete line of PCI servers for the LAN
environment. PCI offers users the benefits of next-generation I/O
performance. In addition, because the cost of PCI technology is less than
that of EISA and because the plug-and-play features of PCI make the
NetServer LS series much easier to configure and manage, both the cost of
purchase and the cost of ownership are reduced -- especially important in
an age of networking-technology proliferation. With the wide-scale
deployment of networking technologies, these have rapidly become major
customer needs in the industry that are being met by PCI technology.

Breakthrough System Performance

The NetServer LS architecture was designed from the ground up for high
performance. The system offers a balanced I/O and CPU/memory system,
industry-leading performance and investment protection for customers:

** A 64-bit clock independent system bus -- results in the highest
performance possible since each device on the bus operates at its own
maximum clock speed.

** Dual PCI Peer buses -- offer users industry-leading performance through
an I/O bus architecture that uses concurrent PCI bus operation with
intelligent I/O buffering and dual access to a 64-bit system bus.

** Dual, integrated PCI fast and wide SCSI-2 controllers -- increase I/O
performance by implementing I/O parallelism with the increased bandwidth
of wide SCSI.

** Dedicated Level 2 caches -- offer industry-leading price/performance for
customers deploying high-end multiprocessing servers through a standard,
dedicated second-level cache of 1MB for each processor.

** MPS support -- offers users the peace of mind that operating systems and
applications will conform to the industry's Multiprocessing Specification
(MPS) today and in the future.

High Availability for Critical Applications

The high performance of HP's NetServer LS Series includes fault-tolerant
features that ensure data integrity and high system uptime to meet the
high-availability requirements of business-critical environments. The new
hot-swap disk subsystem has a dual SCSI backplane that makes internal disk
duplexing easy and allows the server to continue working while failed
drives are being replaced. This hot-swap subsystem also is equipped with
an intelligent bus for managing the subsystem and its hard drives.

NetServer LS array models offer a dual-channel PCI disk-array controller
that supports fast and wide SCSI drives in RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6. In
addition to providing higher performance through PCI bus and better
processor utilization, this PCI array controller features the automatic
hot-spare drive architecture, which, in the event of a drive failure,
automatically reconstructs data on a spare drive.

In addition to these storage features, each system comes standard with
error checking and correcting (ECC) memory that is expandable to 768MB.
The ECC memory includes management capabilities that log memory errors and
tell administrators that they need to take action. The NetServer LS Series
also includes an Automatic Server Restart feature, which automatically
reactivates the server in the event that the network operating system
hangs.

Industry Alliances for Business-critical Environments

The NetServer LS supports industry-leading network operating systems,
including Banyan VINES, IBM OS/2 Warp and LAN Server, Microsoft(R) Windows
NT Server, Novell NetWare, Novell UnixWare and SCO OpenServer. In
addition, the NetServer LS Series will support industry-leading
applications, such as Oracle7, Sybase SQL Server, Microsoft BackOffice,
SAP-AG's R/3 and Lotus Notes.

"We believe the HP NetServer LS series is the ideal power engine to support
very demanding applications, such as SAP-AG's R/3 running on Windows NT,"
said McDonnell. "Such applications demand exceptional availability as well
as easy-to-do network management because such applications are essential
to the enterprise. Further, those applications frequently involve
data-center downsizing."

"With its NetServer line, which now includes the high-end NetServer LS
series, HP is one of the very few PC LAN server vendors that really can
meet the demands of the SAP R/3 system," said Gunther Tolkmit, SAP's vice
president, Technology Marketing. "Our long-standing partnership with HP,
coupled with the strength of HP's expanding NetServer line and strong
position in the Intel-based server market, is opening up broad
opportunities for R/3 customers who have chosen Windows NT."

HP Makes Managing Servers Easy

Continuing with the popular HP server-management solutions, the HP
NetServer LS series comes with the HP NetServer Navigator, a bootable
CD-ROM with comprehensive easy-to-use tools that help users configure,
install and manage their servers quickly. The HP NetServer Navigator also
includes the HP NetServer Assistant 2.2 server management software for
proactive alerting and problem resolution, including pre-failure disk
warning. For security, each HP NetServer LS series has a power-on
password-locking keyboard with optional time-out and screen-blanking
capability, and enable/disable capability for serial port, floppy drive
and switches. An optional HP Remote Assistant card provides comprehensive
remote diagnostics and hardware environmental monitoring. And optional
rack-mount solutions save customers valuable space in a multiserver
environment.

HP also is on the World-Wide Web. Besides product information, customers
and dealers can access drivers, utilities and technical tips and tricks
via the World-Wide Web <http://www.hp.com/go/netserver>, FTP, BBS and
CompuServe.

HP NetServers Backed by World-class Service and Support

The HP NetServer LS Series is protected by HP's standard three-year,
on-site, next-day limited warranty. On-site service is available from HP
service engineers or certified resellers and integrators. Upgrades for
4-hour response during business hours or seven-day 24-hour response are
available from HP and HP-authorized resellers. Free telephone support for
setup, installation and troubleshooting assistance is available in the
United States, Canada and Europe. HP also offers a range of optional
support services for multivendor network environments.

U.S. Prices and Availability

The HP NetServer LS models range in street price from under $7,000 to about
$ 18,000. The NetServer LS 5/75 and 5/100 models are expected to be
available through distributors and resellers on Aug. 1. The NetServer LS
5/133 models are expected to be available on Sept. 1. The quad models of
the NetServer 5/100 and the 5/133 are available one month after each of
these dates.

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing,
communications and measurement products and services recognized for
excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,600 employees and had revenue
of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year.

For additional information, call 800-322-4772

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