The HP Integrity cx2600 server that Motorola will use is based on Intel's Itanium processor, signaling that there's life left in the chipmaker's hard-luck product line. The company on Monday said it will sell Hewlett-Packard's Integrity cx2600...
HP said in a statement that its investment is designed to "vault Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers to the leadership position in the $20bn market currently served by RISC processors". As HP and Intel continue to invest in server innovation...
Higher-end Integrity servers are now available: Intel's newest top-line Itanium processor has 9MB of high-speed cache memory, and HP recently released version 8.2 of its venerable OpenVMS operating system that now can run on Itanium.
That dual capacity also is found in the HP 9000 Unix server line the company is phasing out in favour of the Itanium-based Integrity line. Integrity servers can run Windows, Linux, HP-UX and OpenVMS. HP intends to enhance Integrity Servers with...
That feature appeals to Scott Erkonen, managing officer of networking at Premier Bank Card, who runs business-intelligence tasks on an HP Integrity server with 12 Itanium processors and 24GB of memory.
The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on HP Integrity servers, including the largest, 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers. HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels...