New Itanium 9300 Servers now Available from Bull, Hitachi and NEC
Congratulations to Alliance sponsors Bull, Hitachi and NEC on their recent server announcements featuring Intel Itanium 9300 Series processors.
Bull’s new novascale gcos 9010 is being marketed as the world’s first mainframe natively equipped with an Open Source database for the intensive production requirements. These mainframes are being targeted at customers looking to implement a Private Cloud computing model for their mission critical enterprise applications.
Hitachi has announced 5 new Itanium-based servers - the HA8500 series - running the HP-UX operating system which also feature the Itanium 9300 processor which they expect to deliver twice the system performance of their existing models. The new system include an integrated memory controller that significantly increases the transmission speed between the processor and memory. Hitachi is featuring traditional mid-range server offerings plus several models of Itanium-based blade servers to provide maximum flexibility and expansion capabilities for customers.
NEC has also released 5 new severs - the NX7700i series - based on the Itanium 9300 processor which include a new high end server model, 3 blade server models and a rackmount model. These new servers from NEC available in Japan, run HP-UX and will be focused on high end mission critical data base and server integration solutions and as serving as platforms for cloud computing applications. NEC differentiates its offerings by their high availability middleware, ClusterPro X HA and through their services and Systems integration offerings.