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To: Tom Reck who wrote (703)	12/15/1997 11:42:00 AM
From: Paul Dieterich	Respond to of 1229

Sequent's Four to Eight-Way NT Server to Complement High-End NUMA-Q 2000 Data Center System BusinessWire, Monday, December 15, 1997 at 08:27 BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1997-- NTX 2000(TM) series, a multiple-mission-capable platform for application consolidation, thin client services, or regional site hosting Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. today announced that its NTX 2000 series Windows NT servers are now expandable from four to eight processors, ensuring multiple mission support beyond basic application and file and print services. Sequent, the leader in high-end open systems with its NUMA-Q(TM)2000 data center server, offers NTX 2000 series servers for a variety of three-tier and mixed environment solutions -- all supporting the data center re-centralization trend. Sequent will target the Pentium(R) Pro-based NTX 2000 for application consolidation, thin client services, remote site application, Exchange(TM), file and print serving and other NT workloads where scalability, availability, and manageability are requirements. "This product serves a pronounced need for more scalable, manageable systems as NT expands its role in the enterprise," said Peter Loeb, NT product marketing manager at Sequent Computer Systems. "NT server proliferation, for example, is a challenge on the horizon for many organizations in terms of manageability and cost of ownership. It's important to know that a system you buy today provides a solution looking ahead." In a thin client architecture, NTX 2000 will have a role in the deployment of enterprise-wide applications with highly available data. Sequent will offer NTX 2000 running NT or Citrix Systems' WinFrame 1.7(TM) as an application server and perhaps also providing thin client services utilizing NUMA-Q 2000 as the large back-end database server running Unix(R). This solution combines the best of what NT and Unix offer today, providing a critical step in NT's path to the data center, aligned with Sequent's Intel(R)-based NUMA-Q platform. The NTX 2000 supports up to 8GB of ECC memory (4GB with NT 4.0), up to 108 GB storage, 10 LAN and 20 WAN connections, 15 PCI slots, 3 EISA slots, and ultra fast/wide dual and quad channel PCI SCSI controllers. The system has redundant power supplies and fans along with an internal UPS and full power fail recovery capability. The server supports hot pluggable disks and power supplies. Running NT/E, Sequent's NTX 2000 fully exploits the clustering capabilities of Microsoft's Cluster Server. The NTX 2000 is available as an eight processor system or in a four processor version upgradeable to eight. Each NTX 2000 is bundled with software for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) utilization, system management and remote diagnostics critical for server consolidation and central management of remote systems. Pricing for the base configuration begins at $35,000. Eight processor systems begin at less than $65,000.