Intel Investors - More Info on Compaq's Intel Profusion 8-Way Server.
Looks like the Intel Pentium /// Xeon and 8-Way Configuration - with the "often delayed but finally delivered" Profusion chip set will be a centerpiece in Compaq's Enterprise system effort.
"When Compaq unveils eight-way Pentium III Xeon servers Tuesday in New York, it won't just be leapfrogging ahead of the server pack. The servers are planned to be a centerpiece to a new business strategy."
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Compaq to unveil new server, enterprise strategy
By Stacy Collett and Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld
Posted at 9:09 AM PT, Aug 16, 1999
When Compaq unveils eight-way Pentium III Xeon servers Tuesday in New York, it won't just be leapfrogging ahead of the server pack. The servers are planned to be a centerpiece to a new business strategy.
Enrico Pesatori, Compaq's senior vice president of the newly formed Enterprise Solutions and Services Group, will outline a road map for Compaq's own technologies as well as those it acquired from Digital Equipment and Tandem Computers.
The strategy will include setting up a business-critical server group focused on delivering highly available systems based on Tandem technology.
The group will be headed by Bill Heil, vice president of Compaq's Tandem division, according to Terry Shannon, editor of Shannon Knows Compaq, a newsletter based in Ashland, Mass.
The new eight-way servers are expected to form the basis of future Integrity XC clusters from the company. Integrity XC is a packaged, two- to six-node system comprised of Compaq's ProLiant servers, The Santa Cruz Operation's UnixWare operating system, and Tandem's NonStop Clusters software. The technology -- which Compaq has targeted mainly at telecommunications companies -- allows users to tie multiple ProLiant systems in a high-availability cluster.
With the release of the new servers, Compaq is expected to make the technology available to Internet providers and application hosting services.
Cheryl Currid, president of research firm Currid & Co. in Houston, said Compaq is finally ready to put the technology pieces of Digital and Tandem into play.
"Digital bought a service organization that really knows how to keep [systems running] 24/7. They can fix a lot of short-term problems with scalability" for customers, Currid said.
An analyst who was briefed on the announcement said nonstop electronic business would be a logical choice for Houston-based Compaq and its high-availability experience.
"The service provider has to have a low probability of in-service failure," and Compaq can deliver that, he said.
Dell and IBM will make their eight-way server announcements in late August, after Intel officially releases its long-awaited Profusion chip set.
Compaq Computer Corp., in Houston, is at www.compaq.com.
For more enterprise computing news, go to www.computerworld.com. Copyright (c) 1999 Computerworld, Inc. All rights reserved. Computerworld senior editor Sharon Gaudin contributed to this story.
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