Talking about the HP BL260c
http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3740111
HP certainly dominates the worldwide blade server market. Out of last year’s almost $4 billion in overall blade server sales, HP accounted for about $2 billion.
“HP maintained the number 1 spot in the server blade market in 4Q07 with 47.7 percent revenue share,” said IDC analyst Jed Scaramella. “As the complexity and operational expenses of IT infrastructure continues to increase, a greater number of customers are turning to blade servers as a solution.”
Despite this position of strength, the HP blade development train rolls on with new products being a regular occurrence. The latest is the ProLiant BL260c, and the company is touting this box as the industry’s most power-efficient and affordable server blade.
“The ProLiant BL260c is priced 20 percent lower and is 64 percent more power-efficient than any other server blade,” said Steve Gillaspy, group marketing manager, HP BladeSystem (Palo Alto, Calif.).
HP claims this 1U model uses no more power than a coffee pot due to built-in Thermal Logic technologies designed to increase processing power while keeping watt consumption low. The quad-core Intel chip helps, too, of course. Up to two Xeon dual-core or quad-core (5400 and 5200 sequence) processors are available for a total of up to eight cores. These are supported by 12 MB of L2 cache and up to 24GB of ECC 667MHz DDR2 memory.
Very cool, an interesting article talking about the new HP BL260C server, it does look cool and is a great read, do check it out.


