HP reveals Integrity
Hewlett-Packard has revealed a new line of Integrity NonStop servers, which the company says offers improved performance over its other entry-level servers that require high uptime, reports PC World.
The NonStop Integrity NS2000 server family is targeted at small and medium-sized businesses looking for fault-tolerant servers that require close to 100% availability.
Depending on customer needs, the rack mount servers could go into small or large data centres.
Cisco unveils virtual system
Cisco Systems unveiled its highly anticipated Unified Computing System, which puts it squarely in competition with other tech titans such as HP and IBM in the data centre market, states CNN Money.
The product is a single server that acts like several using a technique called virtualisation.
The server can be used by companies to store massive amounts of data, and allow multiple devices to access that information.
Tesco virtualises servers
Tesco has virtualised over 1 500 servers as part of a deal with Citrix and HP, says Silicon Republic.
The move will increase Tesco's real-time sales capacity by 75% and allow it to handle 1 500 sales messages per second.
The IT upgrade saw the retail giant virtualise key business applications using Citrix XenServer and HP ProLiant BL680c G5 blade servers.
Share