Hewlett-Packard is announcing two new ProLiant servers,
including a $499 system designed for small to medium-sized
businesses, later today.
The ML110 server will be the first of the company's ML100 line
of SME systems. It is a single-processor "tower" shaped server with
a starting list price of $499, and will ship with either a 2.6GHz
Celeron processor or the 2.8GHz or 3.0GHz Pentium 4 from
Intel.
Meanwhile, the BL30p blade is designed to fit into the same
chassis as HP's BL20p and BL40p blade models. The BL30p is half as
thick as a BL20p blade, and it uses a "sleeve" mechanism that lets
two BL30p units plug into the interconnects used by one BL20p.
The BL30p smaller will include only one Integrated Drive
Electronics hard drive, unlike the BL20p, which has two SCSI
drives. Customers will be able to fit 16 of the BL30p blades into
HP's standard BL p-class blade enclosure.
Both the BL30p and the ML110 will support the Linux and Windows
operating systems. The ML110, which will be available as of today,
will also support Novell's NetWare OS.
HP did not have pricing or specifications for the BL30p, which
will begin shipping by the end of June.
Robert McMillan writes for IDG News Service