HP flicks out new blade servers
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 25, 2002, 9:00 PM PT
Hewlett-Packard is expanding on the blade server concept with a new line of dual-processor blades designed for a wider variety of tasks.
The company's ProLiant BL p-class server systems, coming out Monday, are in some ways a cross between standard rack-mounted servers, which are stacked in racks horizontally, like pizza boxes, and blades, even thinner servers, without external cases, which slide into specialized racks vertically, like record albums.
Like rack servers, HP's p-class blades can each contain two processors--instead of one like most current blades--and will be used to run a variety of applications, such as those that control e-mail servers and
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