IBM Launches AMD-Powered 6100 BladeCenter Server
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IBM has recently released its BladeCenter server -- joining a number of server vendors including Dell, Acer and Hewlett-Packard -- to feature AMD's Opteron 6100 processor (codename Magny-Cours). Also noted in this report on IT Pro Portal, benchmarks published about the Magny-Cours Opteron have been mixed given the fact that Intel has since overhauled its own Xeon range of servers.
"Interestingly, Oracle is yet to release a server system based on the Opteron family of processors, which is slightly odd given that Oracle-owned Sun Microsystems had been a long standing AMD OEM partner.
"In a statement to IT Pro, Bob Galush, vice president of System X at IBM, said that 'The addition of the System x3755 M3 to our portfolio is another example of our focus on client solutions. Clients that run heavily threaded workloads like Java, virtualization and transaction processing can increase their performance with a dense, cost-effective solution.'"
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