Crosby Blade Servers
Crosby announced today that is has committed to purchasing
a number of Blade Servers within its data centre.
Matt Wilson M.D., said, our data centre is now 3 years old,
and due to the change in technology once again, we have committed
to purchasing a number of Blade servers that will reduce both
power, space and cooling requirements, plus directly replace
a number of servers now approaching 3 years old. We’ve
committed to Netra ATCA (advanced telecom computing architecture)
this is a blade server, manufactured by SUN, an industry leader
within this sector. Over the next 6 months, we will also be
replacing our network infrastructure with new Cisco PIX firewalls
and Cisco access path equipment, to ensure maximum uptime for
our customers and ensure Crosby are using the very latest technology
in its data centre.
Steven Wilson, Technical Director said, a blade server is a
server on a card. Rather than installing servers one at a time
into a rack cabinet, network administrators can install a server
card into a chassis that has multiple slots to hold these server
cards. Often used by internet service providers (ISPs) for Web
hosting, "Ultra-dense" blade servers contain the highest
number of processors possible based on the lowest size and thermal
requirements. Netra ATCA (advanced telecom computing architecture)
blade server is our preferred choice, and after a long trial
with these products, we believe Netra is the correct product
as a direct replacement in our data centre.
“Today we are committing to a major step toward enabling
choice in the upcoming ATCA platform. This will be the first
carrier grade Sun product to offer AMD Opteron and SPARC processor-based
blades with the Solaris OS and Linux support to meet the needs
of our customers. The combination will provide high performance
carrier grade reliability with a lower total cost of development
and ownership for IP-based telephony services, such as voice,
video and data. Sun's Netra ATCA blade platform will allow us
the flexibility to rapidly deploy revenue-generating services
that can easily adapt to evolving marketplace needs."
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