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| Hitachi Unveils Virtage on Xeon -Based Blade Servers Hitachi America has made its breakthrough Virtage embedded firmware virtualization feature available on Intel Xeon -based blade servers for the first time. Available in North America since November 2006 on Intel Itanium -based blade servers, Virtage brings embedded firmware virtualization – and with it lower costs and increased functionality – to the enterprise datacenter. With the new release of Virtage capabilities for Xeon-based servers, Virtage technology now allows users to scale and virtualize models of Hitachi's BladeSymphony 1000 blade servers utilizing either (or both) Intel Itanium 2 processor-based blades, which support dual-core Intel Itanium 2 9000 Series processors, and dual-core and quad-core Intel Xeon processor-based blades within the same chassis. The advancement makes embedded firmware virtualization available to all three tiers of the datacenter (edge, application and database) for the first time. Users may mix-and-match Xeon solutions with Intel Dual-Core Itanium 2 processor-based server modules – a unique capability of BladeSymphony 1000 – to tackle virtually any workload – from applications and Web services to multi-threaded, mission-critical processing tasks. BladeSymphony 1000 with Virtage, originally announced in November 2006, is the first and only blade server to provide users with enterprise-class datacenter functionality. Virtage brings mainframe-class virtualization to blade computing, delivering high-performance, extremely reliable, and transparent virtualization for BladeSymphony systems. Virtage is built-in firmware and requires no separate OS layer or third-party virtualization software, so it safely shares resources without the performance hit of traditional software-only virtualization solutions. With Hypervisor-type virtualization, Virtage has a natural performance advantage over host-emulation virtualization offerings, leveraging Intel's Virtualization Technology to ensure that processor performance is optimized for the virtual environment. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |