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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
UNISYS INTRODUCES NEW LINE OF
PAY-PER-USE MODULAR SERVERS
Unisys recently inroduced the "pay-per-use" next generation of its
ClearPath
product line.
The new products -- ClearPath Libra 520, 580 and 590 modular servers --
will
feature the JBoss Java 2 Enterprise Edition server, and customers will pay
each month for a certain amount of processor performance. The servers are
metered, so customers can gauge how much they use and how much they need.
This payment structure could prove very beneficial to companies that
need more power during certain times of the year.
Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed
computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts, and outline
strategies and road maps for Grid deployment. For more information, visit
www.gt04.com.
Grid computing is here!
As of right now, however, only the Libra 590 is available with pay-per-use
licensing.
The new systems will simultaneously run the Unisys mainframe MCP and Unix
operating systems on CMOS processors, as well as Windows or Linux on Intel
Xeon or Itanium 2 processors.
The Libra 520 replaces the Unisys CS7201 which will stop production by
mid-year, and the Libra 580 replaces the Libra 185, the previous high-end
system, which will be phased out in the third quarter.
Unisys is now planning to ramp up partnerships with J2EE software vendors
and
is extending its Enterprise Application Environment to generate J2EE
applications from user models, to be released next year.
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