Visionman launches Nehalem Core i7 servers
The single-socket server space has been a niche part of the server space, just as machines with more than four sockets has never been a particularly high volume part of the market. The advent of multicore processors and faster system and memory buses have made single-socket servers more appealing to a certain class of customers …
Pointless Doodah
Indeed. And why would I indulge at stuff a stiff premium when quad socket boards for quad core processors are now reaching an interesting price point?
Nehalem carries too stiff a premium at the moment and does not represent any compelling reason to move frrom current Xeon/Opteron boxes.
Mines the one with the ARM based jobby in yhe back pocket.
Sign up, sign up for Blocks and Files, The Reg's weekly storage newsletter
Popular Whitepapers
- The BI Inflexion Point
Information is a right, not a privilege - Risk and Resilience
The application availability gamble - Register Research on: Agile development - is it right for you
Reaping the benefits of modern software practice - The Register Guide to managing spam
A primer on the implications for enterprise IT - The Register Guide to email security
A primer on the challenges of securing email and approaches to resolving them - High Performance for All
Responding to the needs of compute-intensive workloads
