Intel goes gangbusters with intergalactic scale Xeon 7500 performance

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:53

Business IT - Technology

Intel has launched its newest Nehalem server processors that blast past the amazing advances deliver just last year, from 9 to 1 server consolidation to a whopping 20 to 1 server consolidation capability, massively challenging the much more expensive RISC and mainframe market for a huge chunk of the business market with Intel's latest and superlative greatest! Here's my live report of the presentation...

Intel's Corey Loehr, the ANZ/NZ Gorup Manager of Enterprise Business Development today launched Intel's new Xeon 7500 processors (among others, with the focus on the 7500), and here's my wrap of his talking and my typing as fast as possible, in what is the equivalent of a live report as it was spoken.

'What's one thing we want to achieve? To take the newest and latest tech from Intel, make them relevant for business, for better IT and for govt, delivering better use of taxpayer funds.

'We want to elevate the role of IT in business. Where does IT get representation in P&L? Often it's 'we had a messed up IT project that ran over budget $100m'. It does not have the sizzle it had 10 years ago.

'Who's accountable? Us. It comes down to us. We talk a lot to customers and say there's no such thing as a technology project - only tech enabled business projects. That's what we need to make the linkage on.

'How do we take this technology which we talk about today and translate that to govt and business and make it add value as citizens or employees of companies?

'When you think of that - all companies are participants in a supply chain - each of our firms are competing to be the preferred partner in the supply chain.

'Solar panels panels for example - one will stand out from the others. The better firms I believe that use tech will be the preferred partners - how fast they grab IT and bring it into the company, those that will win the business.

'Today: New processor announcements - storage and networking, enterprise data centre mission critical - and two socket systems'¦

'The focus of today's session will be on:

'Focusing on the mission critical catalyst segment. It has been a busy year for Intel - all kinds of new tech - last year about this time we launched Nehalem.

'Nehalem is and was the biggest performance breakthrough in Xeon tech since the Pentium Pro. It allowed customers to do a 9-1 server consolidation ratio.

'Excellent performance and great value - over 230 new OEM partners in design like storage, appliances, areas where low power and low thermals brought products not possible before.

'Over the course of the year - the adoption of it was one of the fastest we've seenin Intel history. The transition happened exceptionally fast.

'So'¦ now the Nehalem EX - or Intel Xeon Processor 7500 series. A class of product - and expandable range of servers. Which is what it has been designed for. Mission critical and a design reference to provide high availability and mechanisms that have never been available before in x86.

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