Today's business environment is changing in a fundamental way. Despite significant competitive pressures, businesses must increasingly stretch their IT budgets further. For many IT managers, this has created a challenging situation - whether to purchase systems that offer enterprise-level availability and functionality or more economical systems that sacrifice functionality and reliability. Regardless of the decision, many businesses find themselves making an uncomfortable trade-off between functionality and price. As the organization's reliance on its IT infrastructure increases, the importance of this trade-off decision can literally be a matter of business survival.Sound familiar? The HP 05 series family of servers addresses this new business reality by offering your business the capability to deliver top-line results without compromising on the bottom line. Designed for workgroup applications, front-end applications (such as caching, firewall, and workload balancing), and Web, application, and small database serving, 05 series systems offer the right performance while delivering the high availability and manageability features you've come to expect from HP servers.The HP server rp5405 is an affordable, general-purpose server for a wide range of applications including e-mail and web hosting, online transaction processing, and customer relationship management. It offers exceptional performance, flexibility and value for a range of departmental deployments.