Jump to content South Africa-English
HP.com South Africa home Products and Services Support and Drivers Solutions How to Buy
» Contact HP
HP ProCurve Networking
 HP ProCurve Networking

HP’s Big Bang
 

»

HP ProCurve Networking



Content starts here
Image of explosion

Disaster Proof demonstration
» Overview
» Watch the “Disaster Proof” video
» Read the “Disaster Proof” article
» ProCurve engineer has blast exploding gear in Arkansas


ProCurve ties together  Disaster Proof demonstration
In May 2007, a team from HP blew up more than $1 million in equipment with 70 pounds of C4 explosives to prove a point – that HP can protect your organization's critical information assets in a disaster. ProCurve switches tied together HP's disaster proof solutions, which failed over flawlessly. Kell van Daal, an engineer for ProCurve, was there to witness HP's big bang. Watch the video, then read Kell's account of how we did it.

Video icon
 Watch the “Disaster Proof” video

» Read the “Disaster Proof” article

ProCurve engineer has blast exploding gear in Arkansas

Kell van Daal

"We finally found a way to make a ProCurve product fail. All it takes is 70 pounds of C4."

– Kell van Daal, ProCurve engineer

When HP put together a team to show how its disaster-tolerant solutions can protect your information assets, ProCurve switches connected the systems. We asked Kell van Daal, a native of The Netherlands, to write a first-person account of blowing up equipment in Arkansas. He said it was a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” to watch everything fail over perfectly.

» Read Kell's story here

Disaster Proof Resources

» Business Continuity and Availability Solutions
» Disaster Tolerant and Continuous Computing Solutions

Learn more

» Watch the XP Bulletproof video
» Learn more what it took to put the XP disk array to the test
Printable version
Privacy statement Using this site means you accept its terms
© 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.