Pictured is the c1000 Server, one of Rackable's four new MicroSlice-based servers.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Server and storage product provider Rackable Systems (www.rackable.com) has released a broad portfolio of servers based on its new MicroSlice architecture, replacing virtualization software with "physicalization," a hardware-based approach to virtualization and setting a new standard for price performance-per-watt.
Supporting up to 264 servers per cabinet while drawing as few as 72 watts per server, according to Rackable's Wednesday announcement, the MicroSlice architecture enables Rackable's smallest server footprint ever. Improving the price performance ratio for cloud computing and web-based environments by more than 50 percent, MicroSlice also eliminates the need for virtualization software further improving the total cost of ownership.
According to Rackable, MicroSlice establishes dramatic new server price points, with many configurations starting at less than $500, yet still delivering the performance and features required for cloud computing and web-based environments. This 80 percent per-server cost reduction yields a 51 percent improvement in price/performance.
"The new MicroSlice architecture is radical; we eliminated the need for virtualization software and set new density standards with 264 servers per cabinet," Rackable president and chief executive officer Mark Barrenechea said in a statement. "Our MicroSlice-enabled products are timely in this economic climate, allowing data center budgets to go twice as far."
Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Mark Peters has identified Rackable's "blend of reducing costs and improving performance" as being posed achieve gains in the market. "Rackable Systems' innovative mindset has achieved just that with its new building-block server architecture -- delivering a package that is perfectly targeted for any users seeking to 'do more for less' in the current tight economic conditions," he said in a statement.
Rackable has released four new MicroSlice-based servers available in Rackable's CloudRack tray format as well as half-depth server configurations. Using ultra-high efficiency power supplies, high-density AMD boards that support AMD's Dual-Core Athlon and Tri or Quad-Core Phenom processors, each server is supported by Rackable's Roamer advanced server management module.
As an example of a CloudRack tray, one of the configurations includes up to three servers with Dual-Core AMD Athlon, Tri-Core AMD Phenom or Quad-Core AMD Phenom CPUs, four DIMM slots and one 2.5-inch hard drive. One of the half-depth servers includes a Dual-Core AMD Athlon CPU, two DIMM slots, two 3.5 or four 2.5-inch hot-swap hard drives. Information on Rackable's full line of servers is available on the company's website.
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