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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center products provider Rackable Systems (www.rackable.com), perhaps best known for its competitive containerized data center solution ICE Cube, announced on Wednesday that it has launched its C1002 server "to leverage the latest trends in cloud computing."
According to the company's most recent announcement, the servers use the company's new high-density Eco-Logical half-depth chassis design and takes advantage of the latest advancements from technology providers AMD and Intel, including the new 45 nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, previously code named "Shanghai."
A photo of Rackable Systems' new C1002 server, taken from the company's website.
Rackable currently offers another cloud computing-friendly product called CloudRack which uses an "ultra-efficient 'rack-centric' design approach," according to the company's website.
Rackable Systems points out that the new C1002 servers, though great for intensive Internet environments, is highly-suited for cloud computing and delivers double the storage capacity and high density in 1U form-factor.
"Ideal for powering web and infrastructure applications such as Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Exchange and Apache, the Rackable Systems C1002 supports industry-leading operating systems such as Microsoft Server, Red Hat Linux Enterprise and Novell SUSE Linux," says the company in its press release.
The C1002 features a choice of two hot-swap 3.5" or four hot-swap 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI or Serial ATA II disk drives, with capacity of up to two terabytes per system. And six or eight energy-efficient DDR2 memory slots enable C1002 configurations to reach up to 64GB of memory.
To exemplify its efficiency, Rackable explains that up to 88 C1002 servers can be housed in a Rackable Systems' 44U rack to achieve extreme density with environmentally-friendly, low-power consumption.
"Our new C1002 server broadens the range of Rackable build-to-order server configurations to address demanding market requirements," says Giovanni Coglitore, chief technology officer at Rackable Systems. "Customers will achieve greater storage capacities with the C1002 and attain dual server densities in 1U of rack space to lower the total cost of ownership and increase their organization's ability to cost-effectively scale. It is the perfect web server."
The C1002 is immediately available, says Rackable Systems, both for traditional data centers and as part of the company's ICE Cube modular data center.
In September, Rackable Systems announced it signed a partnership with data storage solutions provider NetApp to offer customers server and storage solutions for enterprise environments through its built-to-order eco-Logical data center server and infrastructure offerings.
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