The NonStop Integrity NS2000 server family is targeted at small and medium-sized businesses looking for fault-tolerant servers that require close to 100 percent availability. Depending on customer needs, the rackmount servers could go into small or large data centers.

The servers include Intel's Itanium chips, which have an advanced RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) feature to reduce data corruption and improve performance reliability. Advanced RAS features can correct errors that may occur when data is being crunched on a processor.

"The Integrity platform has more robust RAS ... than x86 processor servers," said Randy Meyer, director of NonStop product management at HP. HP also bundles its own software to ensure better system reliability, Meyer said.

The servers enable fast response times in applications involving payment systems, securities trading or electronic patient records, HP said. They are also priced low enough that they should appeal to SMBs, Meyer said.

For example, the server could appeal to a relatively small hospital that needs the same high-availability server as a much larger hospital but within a smaller budget, Meyer said.