With more than 2,000 stores worldwide, bath and beauty products retailer The Body Shop International has bought Hewlett-Packard servers, storage and software for its computing infrastructure, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based computing company plans to announce on Monday.
The company bought two top-end Integrity Superdome servers that use Intel's Itanium processor and the HP-UX version of Unix; several mid-range StorageWorks EVA and high-end StorageWorks XP storage systems; MC/ServiceGuard for making sure that services are available even when a server crashes; and StorageWorks and OpenView management software. The hardware will also run Oracle and SAP software, replacing that of IBM, HP said.