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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Hitachi-Boosts-Blade-Options/

Hitachi is looking to beef up its blade offerings with the latest Intel Itanium processors.

The company announced June 24 that it would add Intel’s 9100 series Itanium chips to its high-end BladeSymphony 1000 systems, as well as its lower-end BladeSymphony 320 servers.

Additionally, Hitachi will begin offering the latest dual-core Intel Xeon 5200 series processors along with Intel’s quad-core Xeon 5400 chips with both sets of BladeSymphony systems.

This latest announcement from Hitachi, which has been trying to break into the North American blade market since 2006, comes just after Hewlett-Packard announced its Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem, which is also based on Itanium processors and is designed for financial, telecommunications, public sector and high-volume Web 2.0 companies.

Very cool, and good news for Hitachi, I remain a fan of their blade servers. The more choice we have, and innovation of the blade platform, the more choice for the consumer, that I’ll find the right solution for my business which is ultimately what matters. Do check it out.

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