To: Barry Grossman who wrote (65180 ) 9/21/1998 2:36:00 PM From: Paul Engel Respond to of 186894
Barry & Intel Investors - IBM Unveils New Netfinity Xeon Servers IBM is also getting ready to announce a Clustering Switch to enable clusters of Servers with up to 8 Nodes - each node containing 4 XEONS. Let's see - that's 32 Xeons per cluster ! That's good business - if you can get it ! Paul {===============================}infoworld.com IBM rolls out Xeon servers sporting enterprise features By David Pendery InfoWorld Electric Posted at 7:50 AM PT, Sep 21, 1998 IBM has opened the gates on its high-availability plans for Netfinity systems running Windows NT with the release this week of three new Netfinity servers that incorporate elements of the company's RS/6000 and S/390 platforms. The IBM Netfinity 7000M10, 5000M10, and 5000 have available as options Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCon), as well as Fibre Channel support by way of Fibre Channel RAID controllers, PCI adapters, and a Fibre Channel hub. Still to come is the much-anticipated use of IBM's SP clustering switch in Netfinity. The company aims to introduce eight-node Netfinity clusters that can be connected to IBM RS/6000 servers using the SP switch in the first half of 1999, officials said. "The theory is to lay out a blueprint and take enterprise capabilities and bring them into the Netfinity space," said Jim Gargan, director of product marketing for Netfinity. The 7000M10 is a four-way Xeon processor-based machine that sports 12 hot-plug PCI slots, Fibre Channel storage support, and IBM's Predictive Failure Alerts on processors, fans, power supplies, and other components. A configuration with two 400-MHz Xeon processors, 384MB of RAM, a ServeRAID 3H adapter, and the 10/100 Ethernet PCI adapter is priced at $20,599. Also announced is the 5500M10, a two-processor Xeon server. A configuration with a single 400-MHz Xeon, 256MB of RAM, and 27GB of disk space is priced at $10,995. The Netfinity 5000 is a Pentium II-based server. A configuration with a single 350-MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, and 13.5GB of hard disk space is priced at $4,942. Other high-end storage options announced Monday include IBM's ServeRAID 3H and 3L SCSI/RAID adapters, and the Netfinity EXP15, a 10-bay storage enclosure that supports up to 182GB of storage. Pricing for these products was not available. IBM Corp., in Armonk, N.Y., is at (800) 426-3333 or www.ibm.com. David Pendery is an InfoWorld reporter. Go to the Week's Top News Stories Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Deputy News Editor, Carolyn April Copyright c 1998 InfoWorld Media Group Inc. InfoWorld Electric is a member of IDG.net