14 DAY TRIAL // The server manufacturing Egenera announced that it will expand its product offering in order to include server systems based on the newest Intel quad core processors from the 7300 series. The Egenera Processing Blade, also known on the servers' market as the pBlade, will feature four new family members which will integrate apart from Intel quad core Xeon 7300 central processing units, 16, 32, 64 and 96GB random access memory configurations, while supporting a wide range of operating systems like Microsoft Windows, RedHat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Sun Solaris 10.
All the new blade server systems from Egenera's pBlade modules will house a number of four quad core Intel central processing units from the Xeon 7350 line which run at a standard core frequency of 2.93GHz and the manufacturing company continues to use its 1U form factor for the new server configurations, so customers will not have to worry about an increased footprint in order to use a high performance solution. The blade server modules from Egenera are not intended to work in a separate environment but rather to be used in conjunction with the company's customized BladeFrame System as they are diskless and stateless which allows for a high degree of mobility while enabling automated allocation, repurposing and failover since any server can assume the identity of any other server.
The BladeFrame server system is designed as a focal point for the Egenera blades as it can manage all the modules thanks to the Egenera PAN Manager virtualization software which has the ability to reduce the complexity of the deployed solutions. As a single centralizing system can integrate and manage up to 24 pBlade modules or blade servers at any given time without the constraints of similar hardware or software architectures, customers can deploy Egenera's server systems as needed and modify their taskings on the fly in order to meet applications' requirements and scale the computing power accordingly. "The newest Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor-based pBlades offer the highest performing CPU and largest memory configuration, with no compromise on footprint" said Susan Davis, vice president of the Egenera company who was cited by the news site serverbulletin. "Egenera continues to expand and diversify pBlade offerings in order to deliver choice, flexibility and performance to our customers. Working closely with Intel, we ensure that we're again, one of the first to market with the latest technologies."
According to Kirk Skaugen the vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel, the new quad core processing units from the 7300 family of products will provide the computing power needed by the most CPU intensive applications in use today like the virtualization and consolidation tasks. The Intel processors' capabilities will be fully exploited when used on the Egenera stateless blade system servers in order to provide customers with a high performance in business and mission critical operations.