Unisys rolls out 3 x86 servers
leverage a much more contemporary ecosystem,” Sapp said.
The servers are part of
SYSTEMS MERGE INTEL, which will enable multiple architectures) to create the Unisys’ scale-up phi-
LEGACY PRODUCTS operating systems on one environments that allow losophy, which enables
physical machine. interoperability between customers to put more
By Scott Ferguson In addition to the com- legacy applications and workloads on fewer large
Unisys is continuing to pany’s own OS2200 and newer applications, said systems rather than hav-
evolve its server port- mainframe MCP operat- Rod Sapp, director of ing to scale out with more,
folio with more Intel- ing systems, the servers marketing for ClearPath smaller servers.
based systems to comple- will support Microsoft systems and solutions at Unisys has been working
ment its legacy mainframe Windows and Linux distri- Unisys. toward a common plat-
platform. butions from Red Hat and The architectures are form for nearly a year. In
The Blue Bell, Pa., com- Novell. designed to save money May 2006, the company
pany on May 15 unveiled Unlike the company’s by enabling customers to released the ES7000/one,
three new systems based on older servers, the new consolidate older applica- a server that can run both
Intel processors: the Clear- architecture will allow tions on a more flexible and Intel’s Xeon and Itanium
Path Dorado 420 and 430, the systems to share work- dynamic computing infra- chips. On June 27, 2006,
powered by Intel’s dual-core loads dynamically among structure. At the same time, the company said it was
Xeon chips, and the Libra the different environ- Unisyswillcontinuetosup- working with NEC and
400, the first Unisys server ments. port its legacy mainframe Intel to develop the new
to use a quad-core Xeon In addition, the releases ClearPath systems that architecturethatresultedin
processor. of Unisys’ OS2200 and use the company’s CMOS the three new servers. The
The systems will sup- mainframe MCP software chips. Libra 400 is available now;
port Unisys’ own hypervisor enable customers to use “The SOA enables legacy the Dorado servers will be
virtualization technology, SOAs (service-oriented operations and plug into and available in October. ´
