HP wheels out AMD quad core beast
17 Mar 2008 | 11:41 GMT
HP Tech@Work Embraces Barcelona, still loves Itanium
HP SAID IT is moving back into the 8-socket server market with the Proliant DL785 G5 server. It is a Proliant 8 socket 7U based on quad core AMD Opteron processors.
HP remains equally committed to Itanium on its Integrity range of servers the company confirmed at a briefing today. But it is letting AMD in with a sniff.
HP also said that it wasn’t worried about its server business being affected much by the average of six virtual machines running on one physical server.
This is because virtualisation is not the only trend around and besides virtualisation rates are actually quite low and the content explosion and the shift to blade servers would offset the effect. Which sounded rather unconvincing. µ
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