HP punts four new ProLiant servers at SMBs Hewlett-Packard is pushing four new ProLiant servers destined for the wiring closets of mid-sized businesses. According to HP's Proliant marketing director John Gromala, the new systems will revamp the company's SMB gear with more compact systems and lower prices. The new systems are listed below. We will divide the unit specs …
HP have been losing out to Dell at the bottom end of the market over internal disk capacity. HP went with 2.5" drives in their low end DL servers, where Dell stuck with 3.5" drives which offered a much higher capacity. It looks like we won't be seeing a 2.5" 300GB disk in the near future, so HP had to release these boxes to stay competitive.
when's that one coming out? surely with Common System Interconnect it ought to be relatively simple to get Proliants with Itanium Inside (TM) as well as Xeon inside? Wouldn't this minimise HP's engineering development and ongoing support costs, making Itanium more affordable for anyone wanting lower end HP-UX and VMS machines, as well as offering a nice entry level box for anyone who may have other reasons for wanting Itanium?
Umm, four HDD's in 1U isn't new - and if it's a first for HP they should keep it quiet. Apple's first Xserve in 2002 had 4 HDD's (in caddies too), SuperMicro have always had a crap-load of 1U 4 HDD chassis... I'm too bored to make a longer list.
Admittedly, an HP chassis is full of plastic "stuff", strange boxy hinged metal things and no space for cables.
Like Ikea, HP are purveyors of self-assembly furniture, which more often than not, come with the wrong bits.
Why would that be? Aren't Intel being entirely honest about the virtues of QuickPath (Common System Interconnect's official name)? If QuickPath does do what it's supposed to, how long will HP be able to afford to duplicate low-end hardware and firmware/software engineering and support resources, just for the sake of internal HP politics?
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