Silicon Mechanics Extends Bladeform Blade Server Platform

Enterprise Networks & Servers, Mar 2004

Silicon Mechanics has released the SM-B470 Intel Xeon processor MP Server Blade. The SM-B470 enhances Silicon Mechanics' Bladeform Blade Server Platform family of enterprise modular computing products by adding back-end capability to the modular computing family.

The Bladeform family consists of the SM-7140B Blade Chassis, the SM-B270 Server Compute Blades, and modular networking and interconnects components.

The SM-B470 server blade is based on the Intel Server Compute Blade SBX44 and offers the following features.

* Support for up to four Intel Xeon processors MP running at up to 2.8GHz.

* Up to 16GB ECC DRAM DIMM supporting Intel x4 Single Device Data Correction.

* Integrated ATA-100 IDE, embedded RAID-O/RAID-1 mirroring.

* Optional SCSI storage expansion unit with embedded RAID-1.

* Eight communications paths (four network, dual storage).

"This extremely powerful server blade integrated into the Bladeform family of products allows consolidation of front-end, infrastructure, mid-tier and back-end applications onto a single modular family of products," said David Bryan, president, Silicon Mechanics.

"The SM-B470 greatly extends the capability of the Bladeform Blade Server Platform to consolidate servers, dramatically reducing data center space and total cost of ownership."

"We are pleased that Silicon Mechanics is offering the SM-B470 blade server based on the Intel Xeon processor MP, and is delivering scalable performance and deployment flexibility solutions for the enterprise applications," said Phil Brace, director of marketing, Intel Enterprise Platforms and Services Marketing. "Their blade systems based on Intel(R) Server Products deliver the power and value customers require for demanding data intensive environments."