Laminar offers server hardware and software from the two leading manufacturers in the business, namely Hewlett Packard and IBM. A selection from these companies is a low risk investment due to their track record and significant investment in research and development.

IBM
IBM offers a wide range of computing platforms, services, finance, software, and consulting to business and other organisations globally. IBM offers server hardware or core system computing with the following product groups:

· Bladesystem (BladeCentre)
High density modern It systems can be contained in a blade based architecture to simplify resource management.

· X86 (System x).
This family offers a comprehensive portfolio of X86 platforms to suit most businesses of all sizes. Solutions come in Rackmount, Tower, Enterprise Server, and Telecommunications server forms.

· Mainframe (System z).
This is the traditional mainframe technology.

· Unix (System p).
System P technology has evolved from System I and other past technologies and is focused on Unix or larger business computing requirements. It is based on the IBM Power chipset technology.

The main solutions offered by Laminar from the IBM stable are the BladeCentre and System x technologies.

Hewlett Packard
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses.

HP offers server solutions via the ProLiant, Integrity, HP9000 and Alpha families. The most popular is the ProLiant and is the basis of most solutions (“Wintel”) offered by Laminar. The other families are utilised in Unix and “mainframe” type situations.

The ProLiant family offers the following:
· HP ProLiant Modular Line (ML): Flexible, expandable tower and rack/tower options are available for growing businesses in one-and two-socket, entry and enterprise-class feature sets.

· HP ProLiant Density Line (DL): Powerful servers in one, two, four, eight and multi-node designs are optimized for rack-mounted server environment.

· You can also consider the HP ProLiant BladeServers (BL): Compact and powerful, designed for the performance, management, density, and total cost of ownership (TCO) savings requirements of tomorrow’s data centers delivered today.

ProLiant servers are available with an extensive selection of management tools, virtualization software, storage and networking products as well as services and support—strengthened by our close collaboration with world-class independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs), therefore allowing you to run with the utmost confidence.