| New four-way processing blades launched Egenera Inc. has announced the availability of three new four-way Egenera Processing Blade configurations based on the Intel Xeon processor MP 2.80 GHz and Intel Xeon processor MP 2 GHz. These new blades are aimed at allowing customers to move mission-critical applications to a bladed architecture. "Egenera's BladeFrame system is still the only bladed server suitable for business-critical and back-end applications," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "But the real story here is the virtualisation of processing resources. By combining diskless blades with unique software that virtualises 80 percent of legacy-server hardware, the BladeFrame lets customers run any application, on any resource, at any time, automatically. This powerful capability - coupled with the unparalleled price/performance of Intel's Xeon processor family - enables data centres to dramatically reduce total cost of ownership through unprecedented server consolidation." All Egenera Processing Blades share the same 1U form factor. Customers can easily mix and match configurations, hot-swapping blades based on capacity or adding a new blade of any configuration to an empty slot. Moreover, Egenera Processing Blades support more memory than any blade server on the market, making them better suited for handling mission-critical applications such as databases and transaction processing.
•Date:
12th August 2003 • Region: N.America/World
•Type: Article •Topic:
IT
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