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Hewlett-Packard last week bolstered its family of Intel-based servers with two new ProLiant boxes aimed at companies whose data centers are strained for space. The HP ProLiant DL320 and DL360 are 1U (1.75-inch-high) rack-mounted, single-processor servers that offer fault tolerance with Advanced Memory Protection (AMP) technology and online spare memory. AMP supports online spare memory, mirrored memory and hot-pluggable memory. Optional features include a Remote Lights-out PCI expansion card, which lets servers be remotely managed with HP's ProLiant Essentials software and Rapid Deployment Pack. The DL360 uses a 2.4- or 2.8-GHz Intel Xeon processor and has a 533-MHz system bus and an optional hot-pluggable redundant power supply. The DL"320, which uses a 2.26-GHz Pentium 4 processor, includes a PCI expansion slot and redundant ROM. HP expects the DL360 and DL320 servers to be available this month starting at $2,600 and $1,500, respectively.

IBM last week rolled out a Linux-ready server called the eServer p630 that uses one to four Power4 processor and is the first pSeries server to run Linux natively, IBM says. The server can support AIX and separate partitions of Linux and AIX. It contains two 36G-byte disk drives and onboard Ethernet adapters. The company plans to offer WebSphere, DB2 and Tivoli management software for the p630. Early versions of the software can be downloaded here. The p630 starts at $16,730 and is available now.

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Hewlett-Packard last week bolstered its family of Intel-based servers with two new ProLiant boxes aimed at companies whose data centers are strained for space. The HP ProLiant DL320 and DL360 are 1U (1.75-inch-high) rack-mounted, single-processor servers that offer fault tolerance with Advanced Memory Protection (AMP) technology and online spare memory. AMP supports online spare memory, mirrored memory and hot-pluggable memory. Optional features include a Remote Lights-out PCI expansion card, which lets servers be remotely managed with HP's ProLiant Essentials software and Rapid Deployment Pack. The DL360 uses a 2.4- or 2.8-GHz Intel Xeon processor and has a 533-MHz system bus and an optional hot-pluggable redundant power supply. The DL"320, which uses a 2.26-GHz Pentium 4 processor, includes a PCI expansion slot and redundant ROM. HP expects the DL360 and DL320 servers to be available this month starting at $2,600 and $1,500, respectively.

IBM last week rolled out a Linux-ready server called the eServer p630 that uses one to four Power4 processor and is the first pSeries server to run Linux natively, IBM says. The server can support AIX and separate partitions of Linux and AIX. It contains two 36G-byte disk drives and onboard Ethernet adapters. The company plans to offer WebSphere, DB2 and Tivoli management software for the p630. Early versions of the software can be downloaded here. The p630 starts at $16,730 and is available now.

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