<P>Today s mission-critical applications demand ever-increasing scalability and availability from data center servers. The ProLiant 8500, one of Compaq s ultra-density data server product line, delivers the performance and uptime required to meet the current and future demands of enterprise server consolidation, e-business, ERP, thin-client and data mining applications. Based on the Profusion architecture jointly developed by Compaq, Corollary and Intel, the ProLiant 8500 offers excellent scalability driven by its balanced system architecture. </P>