Unisys to launch Itanium 2 servers
ITWorld | at | by Mike
Unisys Corp. added two new lines to its ES7000 server series Tuesday, the Orion and the Aries, which run Intel Corp.'s new 64-bit Itanium 2 processor. The company will try to dent the Unix-controlled high-end server market and convince companies to consolidate their server rooms with the new machines. The ES7000 Aries 130 and the ES7000 Orion 130 will come with either 900MHz and 1GHz Itanium 2 processors, and up to 64G bytes of memory. Users can also choose the ES7000 Aries 230 or ES7000 Orion 230 with Intel's Xeon MP processors, at either 1.4GHz or 1.6GHz.
Computers featuring Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Intel's processors dominate the desktop and low-end server markets, said Mark Feverston, vice president of enterprise server marketing at Unisys. However, RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) chips running flavors of the Unix operating system from Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. have long controlled the high end of the server market, where the more lucrative installations lie, he said.