Fin, Intel investors, Datacenter, a big push by Microsoft and their key alliance partners (not just the ones below) to enter the big time wrt the enterprise and associated requirements in scalability, availability, manageability, etc.
Whistler also coming into the picture later this year on Itanium. It's on the roadmap!
Intel, Nihon Unisys, Microsoft To Market Data Center Servers Thursday, March 15, 2001
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Intel Japan KK, Nihon Unisys Ltd. (8056) and Microsoft Japan KK said Wednesday they will work together in the marketing of servers for use in data centers.
The three firms will sell as their core product Unisys' ES7000 server, loaded with Intel processors and the Japanese-language version of Microsoft's Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system.
Demand for data center services is expanding rapidly, fueled by the increasing number of businesses using the Internet.
The ES7000 is highly scalable, allowing the installation of up to 32 processors. The model first went on sale in March 2000, and cumulative domestic shipments to date have reached about 100 units. The most popular version, with 16 processors, is priced at roughly 50-60 million yen. It will be compatible with the new 64-bit Itanium processor that Intel plans to launch this summer, and also with a new server operating system that Microsoft is developing.
(The Nikkei Industrial Daily Thursday edition) |
