HP on Wednesday announced its Extreme Scale-Out portfolio, intended to cut data center costs for businesses involved in heavy Web 2.0, cloud computing and high-performance computing activities. Such companies typically have data centers with thousands of servers. The HP ExSO portfolio includes a lightweight modular system architecture, as well as services and support. However, HP is in some ways already behind archrival IBM, which last year unveiled its System x iDataPlex solution for the same target markets.
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HP Gives Scale-Out Architecture Extreme Makeover
Posted by: Richard Adhikari June 11, 2009 02:39 PMHP on Wednesday announced its Extreme Scale-Out portfolio, intended to cut data center costs for businesses involved in heavy Web 2.0, cloud computing and high-performance computing activities. Such companies typically have data centers with thousands of servers. The HP ExSO portfolio includes a lightweight modular system architecture, as well as services and support. However, HP is in some ways already behind archrival IBM, which last year unveiled its System x iDataPlex solution for the same target markets.