Unisys to launch prebuilt Microsoft servers
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Promising to reduce the time and hassle involved in setting up large databases, Unisys on Monday will announce a line of servers that come pre-configured with software and hardware from Microsoft, EMC, Veritas and others.
The ES7000 servers are based on Intel processors and will run Microsoft's Windows Datacenter Server and its SQL Server database. The idea is to make it easier for organizations to deploy a large database as a "ready to run" package rather than by assembling the systems piece by piece, Unisys said in a statement.
The configurations on offer will be for workloads ranging from 7,000 to 27,000 concurrent users, with a storage capacity ranging from 1 terabyte to 9 terabytes, according to the statement. Information about pricing and when the systems would be available was not immediately available, and Unisys could not be reached late Friday.