Aug, 2003 : HP Shipping Upgraded, Faster Blade Servers

📅 August 8, 2003 - Hewlett-Packard (hp.com) said this week it is now shipping HP Proliant blade servers with upgraded processors and more performance.

The upgrades include: an updated HP ProLiant BL10e blade server with a 1-GHz/1M Level 2 cache (400-MHz front side bus), with ULV Pentium M processor support and PC2100 266-MHz DDR memory support; an enhanced second-generation HP ProLiant BL20p server with a 3.06-GHz/1M processor with a Level 3 cache (533-MHz FSB) with Intel Xeon processor DP support; and an upgraded HP ProLiant BL40p blade server featuring a 2.8-GHz/2M and 2.0-GHz/1M Level 3 cache (400-MHz FSB) with Xeon processor MP support.
"Blade servers represent the future of traditional server technology, offering businesses more control and flexibility over their IT systems, ultimately improving efficiency, lowering cost and improving their ability to manage change," said Brad Anderson, vice president at HP Industry Standard Servers. "Blade servers are maturing rapidly and customer adoption is accelerating faster than many expected. HP was the first major vendor to introduce blade systems, and today's announcement demonstrates our continued leadership."
The company said that in recent benchmark testing, the faster HP ProLiant blade servers demonstrated increased performance capabilities without compromise over traditional designs.
HP has shipped over 30,000 blades worldwide, according to company reports.
In conjunction with the announcement, the company also introduced the next generation of its GbE2 Interconnect Switch for HP Proliant BL p-Class infrastructures.

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