HP will next month expand its X86 range when it ships AMD and Intel based servers backed by a partner programme and finance packages.

The hardware is based on AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors with an Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 range and an Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 product family.

ProLiant Gen8 rack-and-tower servers and a new blade server with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family are shipping also:

HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8, a rack mounted one-rack-unit (1U) server for SMEs
 

ProLiant DL380e Gen8, a rack mounted two-rack-unit (2U) design compute and storage capacity for data center applications.

ML350e Gen8, an expandable two-processor (2P) tower for remote and branch office environments.

BL420c Gen8, a blade server for midmarket and cost-sensitive enterprise customers.

The AMD Opteron 6200 based ProLiant Gen8 line-up is:

HP ProLiant DL385p, a 2U rack server designed for virtualization, database and high performance computing workloads.

BL465c Gen8, the first server blade with 2,000 cores per rack.

The ProLiant range will add support for the Intel Xeon E5-4600 processor in new, density-optimized form factors for both blade and rack servers. These will begin shipping in volume in the summer, the manufacturer said.

The company announced a partner programme called ProActive Insight Architecture Alliance and finance packages to support the launch.