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LINUX 12/28/01 Today's focus: Linux: HP sharpens its Linux blade servers Dear Wincenty Kaminski, In this issue: * Blade servers for Linux coming soon from HP * Links related to Linux * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust Upgrade your server security to 128-bit SSL encryption! Get VeriSign's FREE guide, "Securing Your Web Site for Business." You will learn everything you need to know about using 128-bit SSL to encrypt your e-commerce transactions for serious online security. Click here! http://nww1.com/go/3500722a.html _______________________________________________________________ THE NETWORK POWER: 2001 Despite the roller coaster ride the economy has put us on this year, networking remains a thriving, vital industry. In Network World's Annual Signature Series POWER ISSUE, you'll find profiles of companies exercising their influence, people grabbing opportunity and technologies making their mark in the enterprise. Find out who has exerted the power in 2001 at: http://nww1.com/go/ad221.html _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: HP sharpens its Linux blade servers By Phil Hochmuth Users looking to cram lots of Linux servers into a small area should look into Linux blade server technology soon to be released from Hewlett-Packard. Blade servers are complete server systems - including processors, hard drive, memory and network interface cards - built onto a single circuit board which fits into a chassis with a CompactPCI (CPCI) bus. Instead of regular servers, which talk to each other over network cables with Fast or Gigabit Ethernet, the server blades communicate with other servers over the CPCI bus. This eliminates the need for cabling to interconnect servers, allows servers to share a common power supply, and provides up to 1G bit/sec speeds between the blades. Up to 38 blade servers can fit in a standard CPCI bus. HP's new blade servers are being billed for applications such as streaming media and Web hosting. The bc1100 model blade will come with a 700-MHz Intel Pentium III processor, 312M bytes of RAM and a 30G-byte hard drive. The server blades will support Red Hat Linux, SuSE and Debian. The bc1000s could be used by enterprises looking to consolidate several servers in a rack - such as Web, database, file and application servers - into a smaller space for easier management. The platform would also be used to shrink down a large, collocated Web server farm into one box, saving on collocated space charges. Network professionals will be able to get their hands on the bc1000 Linux server blades in January at a cost of $1,925 per server. Don't cut yourself! _______________________________________________________________ To contact Phil Hochmuth: Phil Hochmuth is a staff writer for Network World, and a former systems integrator. You can reach him at mailto:phochmut@nww.com. _______________________________________________________________ Register your company on Buy IT, NW Fusion's Vendor Directory and RFP Center and generate new business quick and easy! Promote your brand across our network and access millions of dollars in RFPs. It's the most efficient way to connect with buyers of IT services. Get listed now! http://www.nwfusion.newmediary.com/091201nwwprovnwltr2 _______________________________________________________________ RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Check out other Linux server options from HP http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/linux/ Read more about CPCI and blade server technology http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/2000/114653_12-18-2000.html Breaking Linux news from Network World and around the 'Net, updated daily: http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/linux.html Archive of the Linux newsletter: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/linux/index.html _______________________________________________________________ FEATURED READER RESOURCE Network World Fusion's The Edge site Network World Fusion's The Edge is a resource devoted to the advances in service-provider networks that are shaking up the old telecom order. 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