Stratus Technologies has announced the new Stratus ftServer 2500 and ftServer 4400 systems, both dual-core continuously available servers ideal for supporting critical applications in space-constrained data centres, remote offices, and light-out computing environments.
Together with the previously announced 2-socket quad-core ftServer 6200 system, the ftServer 2500 and 4400 systems represent a new generation of industry-standard Stratus servers that deliver superior processing power, and greater I/O and memory capacity than ever before.
Dual-core Xeon-based 1-socket 2500 and 1- or 2-socket 4400 models allow for wide-ranging configurability, workload support, and IT budgets.
Processor cores have replaced multiple chips on PCBs, while also boosting power, enhancing design and operating efficiency, and improving price/performance for mission-critical applications," says Dick Sharod, country manager for Stratus South Africa. "At one time, our most fully configured system required 12 Xeon processors on three boards. The new top-of-the-line ftServer 6200 has just two quad-cores on each of two boards - four packages with a total of 16 processing engines - and it delivers 450% more power at 31% of the price of that earlier system. Multi-core is the future for all ftServer models."
The processing power of the ftServer 2500 system surpasses the previous entry-level model by 86%, representing a price-performance boost of 40% for replicated distributed computing supported by little to no IT staff.
The mid-range 4400 model, which is equivalently priced to the model it replaces, delivers almost twice the performance to support critical applications in public safety, ATM/POS, call/contact centre, and manufacturing operations management, among others. The ftServer 6200 system pushes up price/performance by 126% over its predecessor, while delivering nearly three times the power for transaction-intensive business operations, next-generation telecommunication services, or as a high-performance database engine and virtualisation platform.
Our benchmark tests simulating a network of 15 000 ATMs showed that the ftServer 6200 is an excellent ATM-driving server in terms of sustained TPS, average response time, CPU utilisation, and just about every other performance metric," said Dean Jordaan, SVP Global Product Strategy, Postilion, a leading global provider of integrated solutions for self-service banking and payments processing. "This machine is definitely a new performance class in the Stratus ftServer line."
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 EM64T will be available on all three models in September 2007. Stratus ftServer 4400 and 6200 systems are available now with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; Windows support on the ftServer 2500 system is planned for mid-October.
These ftServer systems have been developed jointly by Stratus and NEC Corporation as a result of their collaboration agreement signed November 2005.
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