Compaq ProLiant 6400R Delivers Powerful 4 -way Computing in a High Density Form Factor; Compaq Offers Customers the Latest Pentium III Xeon Processors in Its ProLiant Server Family

Business Wire, March 18, 1999

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999--Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ), the world's leading provider of servers and rack optimized solutions, today announced the ProLiant 6400R, the newest addition to its comprehensive line of products specifically designed to best meet customer needs in the data center. This new server delivers the ideal combination of 4-processor computing power and density to customers seeking high performance in space-constrained data center environment. The ProLiant 6400R complements Compaq's line of feature rich, space saving, rack servers, including the award-winning ProLiant 1850R, the record breaking ProLiant 6500 and a forthcoming, high-density 8-way server with Compaq/Intel-developed Profusion technology (see today's related Compaq news release). With this server line and all of the new rack optimized products --2U monitor and 1U keyboard tray-- Compaq provides the most comprehensive and innovative solutions specifically designed for space-constrained data center environments.

"When you look at the innovative design of the ProLiant 6400R, it is clear that Compaq has focused on customer-driven innovation to create a solution that is powerful yet well suited for space-constrained environments like ours," says Paul Stein, Manager of Technology Services, Olsten Health Services, Inc. "With Olsten's continuous growth, we are looking for a product that will expand with us and be easily integrated and serviced in remote environments. The ProLiant 6400R's scalability, reliability and modularity ensures us a stable IT growth path."

Customer-Driven Innovation

"We listened to and worked closely with our customers in the design of the ProLiant 6400R to ensure that we continue to deliver innovative solutions that address their requirements in data center environments," said Mary McDowell, Vice President and General Manager, Industry-Standard Server Division, Compaq Computer Corporation.

With the latest performance technology in an innovative 4U design, the ProLiant 6400R is the ideal platform for data center customers using external storage and back up solutions that require 4-way system performance to run demanding business applications, clustering solutions and active Internet, intranet and e-commerce implementations.

The ProLiant 6400R supports up to four Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz processors with integrated 512KB, 1MB or 2MB Level 2 cache, up to 4GB of high speed ECC protected memory, 64-bit PCI and a dual port 10/100 Ethernet network controller for optimum total system performance.

With high-availability features such as Compaq's patented push-button PCI Hot Plug, redundant hot plug fans, hot plug hard drives and optional redundant processor power modules, hot plug power supplies and NICs, the ProLiant 6400R delivers the highest level of fault resiliency. Additionally, this server has been tested by Compaq to support Windows NT Clusters providing customers with an industry-standard clustering solution that easily integrates into their growing IT environments.

The ProLiant 6400R also includes time and resource saving features for data center administrators. The internal design of the server is totally tool-free, speeding and simplifying access and maintenance which reduces the demands on IT support staff. The modular chassis and system board design combined with component commonality with other servers in the dense form factor family enhances serviceability and helps administrators reduce the cost of ownership.

Latest Processing Technology Enhances Data Center Computing

Further evidence of Compaq's commitment to providing best-in-class technologies to data centers was also showcased today by the company's announcement of upcoming servers based on the 8-way Profusion technology(1), Advanced Cluster Management Tools, and the availability of next generation Pentium III 500MHz Xeon technology in Compaq's ProLiant server family including the ProLiant 6000, ProLiant 6500 and ProLiant 7000.

With today's announcement, Compaq combines the latest, high-performance Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz processor technology from Intel with the flexible form factors and fault-resilient features of Compaq's enterprise-class ProLiant servers. New models include the ProLiant 6000, 6500 and 7000--the industry's best selling industry-standard servers(2).

The ProLiant 7000 supports up to four Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz processors with integrated 1 MB or 2 MB Level 2 cache, and is expandable to 8 GB of ECC protected memory. The ProLiant 6500 also supports up to four Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz processors with integrated 512KB, 1 MB or 2 MB Level 2 cache, and is expandable to 4GB of ECC protected memory. Both the ProLiant 7000 and 6500 will be upgradable to future 8-way processor technology. The ProLiant 6000 supports up to four Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz processors with integrated 512KB or 1 MB Level-2 cache (92MB cache is optional), is expandable to 8 GB of ECC protected memory, and features up to 218.4GB of internal storage capacity.