HP faster ProLiant blade servers and high-performance networking
switches
Posted: 6 August 2003
Increased performance capabilities demonstrated in industry
benchmarks
HP announced faster processor upgrades across its line of HP ProLiant
blade servers, offering customers increased performance and unparalleled
investment protection.
The company also introduced the next generation of its GbE2 Interconnect
Switch, which delivers high-performance switching capabilities for
HP ProLiant BL p-Class infrastructures.
The announcements include:
- The second-generation HP ProLiant BL10e blade server has been
updated with a 1-GHz/1M Level 2 cache (400-MHz front side bus)
with ULV Pentium® M processor support and PC2100 266-MHz DDR
memory support.
- The second-generation HP ProLiant BL20p server has been enhanced
to deliver leading performance in blade servers with a 3.06-GHz/1M
processor with a Level 3 cache (533-MHz FSB) with Intel® Xeon
processor DP support.
- The HP ProLiant BL40p blade server has been upgraded with a
2.0-GHz/2M and 2.8-GHz/2M Level 3 cache (400-MHz FSB) with Xeon
processor MP support.
“Blade servers represent the future of traditional server
technology, offering businesses more control and flexibility over
their IT systems, ultimately improving efficiency, lowering cost
and improving their ability to manage change,” said Ryan D’Souza,
Product Marketing Manager, HP Industry Standard Servers Gulf &
Levant.
“Blade servers are maturing rapidly and customer adoption
is accelerating faster than many expected. HP was the first major
vendor to introduce blade systems, and today’s announcement
demonstrates our continued leadership.”
The HP ProLiant BL GbE2 Interconnect Switch is supported by a new
24-port Gigabit switch module designed by Nortel Networks specifically
for the HP ProLiant BL p-Class blade servers.
The switch module is among the most advanced integrated blade system
Ethernet switches available for customers who demand advanced network
functionality and unparalleled investment protection in a user-friendly
design.
The advanced, high-speed switch module allows enterprises, service
providers and telecommunications companies to build a high-performance,
secure and scalable infrastructure.
HP ProLiant BL architectures allow rapid deployment, provisioning
and re-provisioning of resources as demands change.
Through the systems’ built-in management and virtualisation
capabilities, businesses can efficiently adjust to demands and easily
add, remove or re-deploy applications to different blade servers
and storage resources.
In recent benchmarks, the faster HP ProLiant blade servers demonstrated
increased performance capabilities without compromise over traditional
designs.
The HP ProLiant BL40p blade server recently posted a Microsoft
Exchange 2000 Benchmark result of 13,500 MMB2, making it the first
four-processor blade to achieve this result.
The MMB2 benchmark simulates the type of workload seen by customers
as they increasingly rely on messaging services deployed in today’s
corporate e-mail environments.
The second-generation HP ProLiant BL10e server showed a peak performance
advantage of 64 percent over its previous generation with the WebBench
5.0 benchmark from PC Magazine.
In the rapidly growing market for alternatives to rack-mounted
systems, HP is the only major vendor shipping the latest generation
3.06 533-MHz processor blade technologies and is the only major
vendor shipping four-processor blade servers -- providing customers
with the latest in processor technology and maximum investment protection.
HP holds 55 percent market share in IA-32 blade server revenues
in the United States for the first calendar quarter of 2003.
HP has shipped well more than 30,000 blades worldwide, as customers
realize the advantages of installing HP blade servers.
The Greater Baltimore Medical Centre (GBMC) recently replaced three
full racks of servers with a single rack of HP ProLiant BL20p blade
servers to reduce operating costs, save valuable data centre space
and allow for future growth.
“GBMC is planning on using HP blade servers to run all of
our mission-critical applications in the future,” said Mike
Hebrank, chief information officer, GBMC. “Blade servers provide
us with additional value through their compelling cost-savings potential.”
For more information see http://www.hp.com/go/blades.
Posted by Richard Price,
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