14 DAY TRIAL // Unisys Corporation today announced the availability of its recently unveiled next-generation server architecture, which integrates the new Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 Series (code-named "Montecito") the engine for new models of its ES7000/one Enterprise Server.
Moreover, Unisys was among the first system providers to announce support for the new Itanium 2 processor 9000 series and played a major role in Intel's announcement.
"The Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor enables Unisys to deliver major benefits to our customers and significantly advances Unisys enterprise server architecture," said Colin Lacey, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Server Group, Unisys. "By taking advantage of the ES7000/one's superior efficiency, Unisys can give customers scaleable servers that help optimize IT asset utilization and significantly reduce ownership costs in a real-time infrastructure that dynamically allocates resources to meet rapidly evolving business challenges."
The ES7000/one server power-driven by the new Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processors has demonstrated, according to both manufacturers, the highest performance of any 16-processor and the lowest price/performance of any non-clustered server in the 3000 GB TPC-H benchmark, widely recognized as a standard measure of system performance for decision support and business intelligence in commercial enterprise computing, 'ranking' an improvement in price/performance of approximately 50 percent compared to other similar performing platforms which run on the previous generation of Intel Itanium 2 processors.
"With the new ES7000/one models, Unisys continues to deliver solutions based on Intel technology with new levels of economic and operational advantage to our enterprise computing customers," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel. "Combining the power of the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 platform with Unisys expertise in mission-critical enterprise computing, the new ES7000/one provides an attractive alternative to proprietary Unix and RISC systems, as well as an excellent engine for high-performance transaction applications and sophisticated business intelligence deployments."
Unisys's latest powerful ES7000/one servers come with integrated software tools and a rich suite of consulting, implementation and management services for optimizing real-time infrastructures, consolidating IT, and enabling application environments to benefit from Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and open source software.
Unisys will launch its ES7000/one servers based on the Montecito platform available in late August, and the entry-level configurations of new Itanium 2 models of the ES7000/one will be available at a starting price of $45,000.
Intended as the common platform for all Unisys enterprise servers, including the ES7000 and ClearPath families, the architecture will be the first in the market capable of running Microsoft Windows, Linux and Unisys OS2200 and MCP operating environments simultaneously on the same computer system in a single virtualized partition.
Unisys expects to begin delivering systems based on the new architecture in late 2007.