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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (76247)	3/12/1999 1:58:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jimbo - Compaq Likes the Pentium III Xeon - A LOT !!! You can read all about their 4-WAY Pentium III XEON ProLiant Server that they will be introducing at CeBIT next week. Don't ignore the references to 8-WAY SMP servers coming from Compaq. Hint, Hint, WInky, Winky : They will not have K7's inside them ! Paul {======================} infoworld.com Compaq to launch new ProLiant server, software By Nancy Weil InfoWorld Electric Posted at 11:55 AM PT, Mar 11, 1999 Compaq next Monday will unveil the ProLiant 6400R server, along with new server cluster management software. The company will also use the CeBIT trade show next week as a forum to discuss the work it has done on eight-way technology with Intel and with Intel's subsidiary, Corollary. Compaq's part of the eight-way architecture briefing at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, will not include specific products. However, the company will be showing examples of likely future machines for that market at its booth, said Keith McAuliffe, Compaq vice president for corporate servers. Compaq does not have an eight-way server on the market yet. The ProLiant 6400R and the new software also will be demonstrated at the show. These are among the elements of next week's flurry of Compaq announcements. The ProLiant 6400R will be available by April 17 worldwide. Pricing has not yet been set and will be announced soon. The server runs on as many as four Pentium III Xeon processors, is optimized for clustering, and includes components common to both the ProLiant 6500 Xeon and the ProLiant 1850R, including shared system boards and memory modules. This means that data center users who have done performance profiling and configuring on the other ProLiant models "can fairly safely predict how the product will behave," McAuliffe said of the ProLiant 6400R. The machine has six 64-bit PCI slots, and its memory is expandable to 4GB with support for both redundant and non-redundant power processor modules, hot-plug redundant cooling and four Ultra2 hot-plug hard drives. Components are packed in more tightly than in previous enterprise server models, McAuliffe said, adding that the ProLiant 6400R is "a pretty darn dense server." The server is also supposed to be easy to work on, with only two screws that require tools to loosen -- the rest can be removed using fingers. The server model will run Windows NT 4.0 and will also work with Windows 2000 when that operating system is released by Microsoft. Insight Manager XE Cluster Monitor will ship as a standalone product or as part of Cluster Insight Manager. Both are due out in the second quarter of this year. Pricing was not available. The manager product ships standard on all Compaq servers. The Web-based software allows administrators to monitor cluster performance, errors, and failures, including remote monitoring by logging on to the Internet. Besides showing performance data and sending alerts when trouble arises, the software also recommends how to deal with some problems, said Vince Gayman, Compaq director of high availability marketing. Administrators can monitor performance at the cluster level or push down additional layers to keep tabs on nodes and components. The Intelligent Cluster Administrator will cost $1,000 per cluster when it ships on March 17, and can either be integrated with the Cluster Insight Manager and the XE Cluster Monitor or operated as a standalone product. The administrator software will be a standard part of the high-end cluster server package, Gayman said. The Web-based software line for cluster management works only with Windows NT, but is expected to be extended to other operating systems as the cluster concept spreads, Gayman said. As for eight-way technology, Compaq will be showing both 7U and 14U servers at CeBIT; a "U" is a 1.75-inch standard measurement of the space between holes in rack enclosures. McAuliffe predicted that the new machines due out from his company will be on par with the new AS/400 line recently announced by IBM and with Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 offering. The 7U machine will have limited internal storage and is being designed to work companionably with Compaq's external storage products. "It's just full of processors and cooling," McAuliffe said of the machine. Compaq Computer Corp., in Houston, can be reached at www.compaq.com. Intel Corp., in Santa Clara, Calif., can be reached at www.intel.com. Corollary Inc., in Irvine, Calif., can be reached at www.corollary.com. Nancy Weil is a Boston correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Go to the Week's Top News Stories Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Deputy News Editor, Carolyn April Copyright © 1999 InfoWorld Media Group Inc. InfoWorld Electric is a member of IDG.net

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (76247)	3/12/1999 5:00:00 AM
From: Fred Fahmy	Respond to of 186894

Jim, <Mark my words and copy this for posterity. In a couple years,....> Mark my words, in a couple years, after the ignorance surrounding the ID has dissipated, no one will give a crap. Just like few people think twice about using a phone or logging on to the internet. I'm still surprised that you even get on the internet and are willing to expose your hard drive to random sites, or do you only go to sites from which you have received written acknowledgement that they will not look at anything on your PC?? <GGG> FF