Cloud Computing: Intel Launches Itanium 9500 Series for Mission-Critical Computing
November 8, 2012
Grazed from PCMag. Author: Damon Poeter.
Intel on Thursday unveiled a new generation of Itanium processors for mission-critical data center installations alongside partners like Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Hitachi, France-based Bull, and China’s Inspur, which are already building systems based on the new Itanium 9500 series chips.
Formerly codenamed Poulson, Intel’s latest Itanium series succeeds the "Tukwila" generation of Itanium processors. It is being billed as a platform tailor-made for consolidating legacy RISC and mainframe infrastructure and computing in a dedicated system capable of handling mission-critical computing in increasingly cloud-centric data centers…
"In a world where businesses are increasingly dependent on IT for their competitive advantage, more and more business applications are rightfully called ‘mission critical’ — they must be always available, highly responsive and extremely reliable," Intel Datacenter and Connected Systems Group general manager Diane Bryant said in a statement. "It’s for precisely these computing workloads that we’ve developed the Intel Itanium 9500 processor."…
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