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NSI Software announced last week enhancements to its Double-Take server replication software for Windows. The product now includes a feature called Enterprise View Server Groups that lets administrators organize servers into groups by division, branch office or application so they can manage and monitor them better. The company also added the Enhanced Failover Monitor, which lets companies integrate Double-Take failover capability into enterprise management consoles. Double-Take is priced starting at $2,500 per server.
Dell says it plans to bolster its PC business with a high-end product category for buyers with more expensive tastes, a company executive says. The new category, which has yet to be named, will consist of desktops and notebooks priced between $1,200 and $3,500, Dell says. The company expects to make the products available in the second half of the year.
Stratus Technologies is boosting its Intel-based fault tolerant line of servers with the ftServer 4600, which is built on a custom designed chipset that the server maker says boosts performance by 66% over its predecessor, the ftServer 5600. The 4U 4600 packs four Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz processors with 2M bytes of Level 2 cache , up to 16G bytes of DDR2 memory and an 800 MHz front-side bus into a 4U package, smaller than the 6U 5600. It’s designed to be modular with fewer components for easier growth. “We’re providing more flexibility and more headroom,” says Dan Fallon, product manager at Stratus. The box, which supports Windows Server 2003, comes with low-cost Serial ATA drives instead of SCSI. Pricing starts at $40,000.
