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To: w0z who wrote (2884)	5/30/2003 3:28:57 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 4345

HP drops down for low-end storage By Ian Fried Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 30, 2003, 12:03 PM PT Hewlett-Packard plans to present Tuesday an update to its low-end networked storage line, with new models priced as much as $5,000 below current products. The revamp to the Network Attached Storage (NAS) line ushers in three StorageWorks NAS 1000s machines that use Microsoft's Windows operating system tailored for storage gear. HP is pitching the trio at small and midsized businesses and remote offices that want to move into networked storage. The list price for the 320GB StorageWorks NAS 1000s is $2,999, with a 640GB model priced at $4,999 and a 1 terabyte machine at $6,999. The new models fit below HP's existing low-end system, the StorageWorks b2000, which starts at $7,995 for 500GB, but can be expanded to 18 terabytes. HP has been a key ally of Microsoft in its two-year-old bid to crack the storage market. Last winter, the two companies teamed up for a road show touting the benefits of using Windows to run networked storage gear. HP said the new 1000s line is cheaper than its b2000 series in part because it uses less-costly ATA drives, compared with the SCSI disks used in the earlier StorageWorks series. The products will be formally announced at next week's TechEd trade show in Dallas. Also at the show, Microsoft is expected Monday to discuss a new version of its Windows-powered NAS software. For the first time, the company is likely to make the software available in multiple versions, allowing it to be tailored to different segments of the storage market. The Redmond, Wash. company has recently been trying to broaden the range of storage gear running its software. Last month, it announced that storage leader EMC will begin selling a Windows-based NAS product known as NetWin. That machine will be aimed at expanding Microsoft-based gear into higher price ranges. NetWin is expected to sell in the $50,000-to-$135,000 price range. Separately, HP and Legato Systems plan on Monday to announce a broader partnership to help sell e-mail archiving systems to large companies. HP will resell Legato's EmailXtender software as part of the deal.

To: w0z who wrote (2884)	6/1/2003 12:21:15 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 4345

AMD tease continues, although HP will get very annoyed By Mike Magee: Sunday 01 June 2003, 02:05 HUGE PC FIRM Dell is set to launch a series of servers based on the Intel Madison 64-bit microprocessor, shortly after it's launched at the end of June, reliable sources tell the INQ. The Madison is a largely HP-developed CPU, and is the successor to bug-ridden Itanium II, also known as the McKinley. Corporations buying kit from Dell rather than HP already have such evaluation machines in their glasshouses, we understand. And they're being offered at a huge discount to them, too. Although Dell has previously havered over Intel's Itanium platform, rejecting it as a server platform last year, it spurned the Itanium platform mostly due to lack of customer demand, we understand. Dell is driven by what customers want, it always says. However, and quite recently, Intel has made the Round Rock firm an offer it can hardly refuse. It will give both Intel and Dell the chance to put HP's nose out of joint, especially as Carly Fiorina's firm is flirting with AMD so much. The Madisons that Intel will supply Dell will be very heavily discounted, in a bid to stave off the 2GHz Opteron attack. The Dell move may also be intended to put HP's nose out of joint, we understand. Of course, that is bound to irritate HP, which will pay far more for the Madison 6MB Itaniums than its younger contender and hated enemy. Further, say the same sources, Intel and Dell are already spreading these boxes to corporations far and wide, and the machines are already outrunning the Intel McKinley IIs on most benchmarks, because of the bigger integrated cache. We even hear that there may well be a 128/2 times 64-way SGI Altix system by the end of the summer, showing that Intel still refuses to give up the ghost on its 64-bit platform. In fact, it appears Intel has "favourites" in what was thought to be a "level playing field", and referees are advised to retire to the changing rooms if Carly Fiorina and HP turn up and demand answers to their questions. Intel and Dell were unavailable for comment. So was HP. µ