Cringe - Re: "Intel had to correct the i810 chipset (and Camino, and Profusion, and Profusion, and Profusion). "
Are you referring to THIS Profusion Chip Set ?
Compaq Makes Aggressive Play for Leadership in High Growth Enterprise Markets With 8-way ProLiant Systems
"The ProLiant 8000 and 8500 have been beta tested and optimized for a wide variety of applications at more than a hundred sites making them ready for commercial deployment. Prices for the 8-way ProLiant servers range from $20,000 to $80,000 for configured systems.
The ProLiant 8000 and 8500 have been beta tested and optimized for a wide variety of applications at more than a hundred sites making them ready for commercial deployment. Prices for the 8-way ProLiant servers range from $20,000 to $80,000 for configured systems. "
Paul
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biz.yahoo.com
Tuesday August 17, 9:33 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Compaq Makes Aggressive Play for Leadership in High Growth Enterprise Markets With 8-way ProLiant Systems
Targets Exploding ISP and ASP Markets by Offering One Stop Best Price-Performance, Business-Critical Services and Innovative Technologies
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 1999-- Seizing growth opportunities in the exploding eBusiness market, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ - news) today unveiled its new 8-way ProLiant 8000 and 8500 servers and business-critical services that will change the competitive landscape for eBusiness infrastructure, redefine the server marketplace and drive new major revenue opportunities for the company. Compaq's strategic investments in developing 8-way technology and business-critical services are the latest building blocks for rolling out its NonStop® eBusiness strategy.
Building on its worldwide leading market share of 32.7 percent in PC servers (more than IBM and Dell combined(1)) and its 28.9 percent market share in web servers (more than Sun Microsystems and IBM combined(2)), Compaq is aggressively targeting the fast-expanding Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Applications Service Provider (ASP) markets. Compaq's goal is to extend its leadership position to the ISP and ASP markets by 2001. According to Forrester Research(3), the combined value of the ISP and ASP markets are expected to expand from $7.85 billion today to $27.2 billion by the year 2001. This represents a significant engine for Compaq growth.
''Customers are looking to deploy their eBusiness solutions faster, at lower cost and with minimum risk. We will address these needs and drive aggressive market growth in industry-standard computing among enterprise customers through our ability to deliver Business-Critical Services to eBusiness customers requiring 24x7 support,'' said Enrico Pesatori, SVP and Group General Manager, Enterprise Solutions and Services Group, Compaq. ''Our 8-way ProLiant servers deliver superior scalability, reliability, and availability, and match the server performance of market rival Sun at one-third of the cost(4).''
Leveraging its strength in the Windows NT, SCO, Netware, and Linux marketplaces, its strategic partnerships with key industry players, its innovative industry-standard solutions, and its experience in delivering business-critical and integration services, Compaq is well armed to be the vendor of choice for companies deploying NonStop eBusiness infrastructures.
''Our customers require a reliable and cost-effective platform that can scale-up to meet their demanding web, e-commerce and messaging requirements,'' said Deborah Willingham, Vice President, Business and Enterprise Division at Microsoft Corp. ''In today's competitive marketplace, the combination of Compaq's 8-way SMP architecture and Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition provide customers a high-end infrastructure with exceptional price/performance, to effectively run their business. The forthcoming Windows 2000 Advanced Server will offer our mutual customers additional availability and scalability enhancements for their Internet-based and line of business solutions.''
Bobby Patrick, Vice President of Strategy and Product Development, DIGEX (NASDAQ:DIGX - news) said, ''As a leading provider of web and application hosting solutions in a booming market, we have to provide our customers with a competitive and uninterrupted service, 24x7. The deployment of ProLiant 8-way servers in our IT infrastructure means we are always open for business. We are able to provide our customers with leading-edge Internet applications on-demand and realize significant cost savings at the same time.''
Compaq ProLiant 8-Way Servers Provide Competitive Advantage
''Just as Compaq defined the PC server economic value model 10 years ago with the SystemPro server, today Compaq is bringing a new economic value to enterprise customers, ISPs and ASPs,'' said Mary McDowell, Vice President and General Manager, Industry Standard Server Division, Compaq. 'Compaq and Intel co-developed the new 8-way Profusion Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) architecture to provide new levels of power across a broad range of applications. Together, we are driving the whole industry forward by making this architecture available to other server manufacturers.''
Compaq Profusion-based ProLiant 8-way servers push Windows NT further into the enterprise and offer NonStop eBusinesses innovative technologies, new levels of scalability, better up-time guarantees and price: performance benefits. The ProLiant 8000 and 8500 have been beta tested and optimized for a wide variety of applications at more than a hundred sites making them ready for commercial deployment. Prices for the 8-way ProLiant servers range from $20,000 to $80,000 for configured systems.
The ProLiant 8000 server delivered record breaking TPC benchmark results of 40,013.30 transactions per minute at $18.86/tpmC. With this latest benchmark, Compaq now holds the number one position for 8-way, 4-way, 2-way, and 1-way processing in TPC-C Results by Performance(5).
As part of its comprehensive 8-way ProLiant solution, Compaq offers easy to purchase CarePaq service modules that range from 24x7 uptime and 4-hour response time guarantees, to business critical expertise for planning, deploying, maintaining and managing the most demanding e-commerce environments.
Compaq Background
Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of computer systems. Compaq develops and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, enterprise and network storage solutions, commercial desktop and portable products and consumer PCs. The company is an industry leader in environmentally friendly programs and business practices.
Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of authorized Compaq marketing partners. Customer support and information about Compaq and its products are available at compaq.com.
Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. (1) IDC's preliminary 2Q 99 Worldwide PC Server shipment (2) ZDMarket Intelligence: ZDMI Technology Database, 8/99 (3) Forrester Research: ''Internet Services Hypergrowth'' -
February 1999, ''Packaged Apps Outsourcing '' - January 1998 (4) Doculabs Webserver Test, July 11, 1999 (5) The ProLiant 8000 was running Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Enterprise Edition and Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition. For more information, please refer to www.compaq.com/8-way
Contact:
Onsite phone number on August 17: Christine Campbell, 212/554-2045 campbell@shandwick.com or As of August 18: Shandwick International Phillip Tree, 281/927-8434 phillip.tree@compaq.com or Shandwick International Karen Marcus, 617/351-4103 kmarcus@shandwick.com or Compaq Computer Corporation Jim Finlaw, 281/514-6137 jim.finlaw@compaq.com |
