Vendor Highlight: Hitachi
Hitachi blades are available with Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and with Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors. All three blade modules can be mixed and matched in the same chassis to optimize performance for any combination of 64-bit and 32-bit applications. The Itanium-based server blades can be used as separate 2-processor systems, or they can be linked via a high-speed backplane to combine 4, 6 or 8 CPUs in true SMP configurations. Combined with Hitachi’s embedded virtualization capabilities, this provides exceptional flexibility for scaling up or out in the same chassis—and for optimizing utilization and workload management.
These dense, high-performance systems integrate network, power, server and management resources into a single chassis, and include advanced reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities that support uninterrupted operation. Features such as redundant and hot-swap components, N+N power supplies and N+M failover protection enable mission-critical applications to be deployed with confidence.
