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Servers
Multi-core x86 and entry-level UNIX
x86 servers with multi-core processors and multiple form
factors offers the best price-performance and performance per watt, while UNIX
machines are best suited for heavy transaction environments and vital applications
 SMBs
have a choice of servers powered by dual-core, quad-core and six core CPUs from
Intel and AMD in various form factors. Rack and blade servers offers higher
performance per watt in the x86 space. These aggressively priced products are
a commodity with entry-level Xeon/Opteron servers starting at a price tag of
Rs 25,000.
On the server OS front, SMBs can choose from Windows, Linux and UNIX (AIX, HP
UX and Solaris).
While the growth of blade servers is higher than that of rack and tower servers,
blade servers still come at a higher price point. However, if you have hundred
of servers running in your data center, blade servers can reduce TCO significantly
thanks to virtualization that can help you save on power and cooling costs.
While buying servers, SMBs need to factor in a couple of points such as the
business applications that they want to run, capacity required and map the same
with their business growth and future expansion plans. For example if an SMB
has high transaction volumes running ERP and is expanding fast, it would need
a 2p rack server. This would give it the performance and high scalability for
growth to add applications that it wants to run in the future.
Standalone applications can run on 1p tower servers as these have better price-performance.
For demanding environments running multiple instances of applications that require
higher I/O performance, reliability and scalability, SMBs can choose 4p or 8p
x86 rack servers or go in for UNIX servers.
Further, SMBs should consider 4p rack servers for physical server consolidation
as these reduce the server footprint, simplify management, reduce licensing
costs and save on power and cooling to boot.
x86 servers
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 Features:
This server is powered by a single 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Xeon Nehalam 5500
series processor with 8 MB of fully shared L3 cache, 3 GB of 1066 MHz
DDR3 ECC RAM, a 160 GB 7200 RPM SATA drive and on-board dual Gigabit Ethernet.
Its other features include two PCI Express 2.0 x16 expansion slots, Bonjour-enabled
Lights-out management processor and server monitor software, two FireWire
800 and three USB 2.0 ports; and an unlimited client license for Mac OS
X Server version 10.5 Leopard.
Price: Rs 1,78,500
Telephone: 1800-425-4646 / +91-80-2574-4646
E-mail: indiasales@mac.com
Website: apple.co.in/store/
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It combines the power of blade servers with integrated storage in the
same chassis. Designed for SMB environments, BladeCenter S integrates
Intel, AMD and Power processor-based blades in the same chassis (including
the latest BladeCenter HS22 with Intel Xeon 5500 series processors). SMBs
can choose up to six dual-processor or up to three quad-processor blades
with a combination of storage to suit their requirement of up to 12 SAS,
12 nearline SAS, or 12 SATA or they can mix and match SAS/SATA disks.
Price: Starting from Rs 3 Lakhs
Telephone: 1800-425-3333
Website: ibm.com
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 Features:
It is a blade server with up to two 2.50 GHz Intel Xeon E5420 Quad-core
Processors and it comes with 2 GB RAM (maximum of 40 GB of ECC 667 MHz
of DDR 2 registered DIMMs)and 1.8 TB of storage capacity. HP iLO 2 power
management functionality, a C3000 enclosure, Ethernet, power supply and
Active Cool fans are bundled with the blade server.
Price: MRP Rs 2,94,999 onwards including
taxes
Contact name: Jayanthi Sethuraman
Telephone: +91-98453-25527
E-mail: jayanthi.s@hp.com
Website: www.hp.com.
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This 2p tower server comes with Intel Xeon 3000 or 5000 processors, 2
GB (2x1 GB) PC2-5300 DDR2 FBDIMM (667 MHz) memory and a 3.5-inch SATA
hard drive. ThinkServer EasyStartup (hardware configuration tool), ThinkServer
EasyUpdate (update utility that allows users to identify, download and
install hardware and firmware updates) and ThinkServer EasyManage (full
featured tool developed together with LANDesk) are bundled with the server.
The OS options include Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Price: Start at Rs 45,000 plus taxes
Contact: Ravikumar Kanakarajan
Telephone: +91-80-30533109
E-mail: buy@in.lenovo.com
Website: lenovo.com
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 Features:
It is a dual core server powered by an Intel Xeon 3110 dual core 3.0 GHz
6 MB L2 1333 MHz processor with 1 GB 800 MHz Unbufferred ECC memory; 320
GB SATA hard drive (x1); 6-port SATA controller with RAID 0,1 support
Gigabit LAN, DVD-ROM drive, Acer EasyBUILD and Acer Server Manager (ASM),
Acer Value Pack with three years comprehensive warranty. An optional Hot
Swap Hard Disk upgrade kit is available.
Price: MRP Rs 55,000
Contact: Kamesh Kumar Ramalingam
Acer India Pvt Ltd
Mobile: +91-93796-82095
Direct: +91-80-40708827
Fax: +91-80-25219535
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UNIX Servers
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 Features:
This server is powered by 1-, 2- or 4-core 4.2 GHz or 4.7 GHz POWER 6
processors and it comes with two 146 GB SAS HDDs and 8 GB RAM. Other features
include serviceability (RAS), the ability to detect and recover from errors;
EnergyScale technologies and software tools to measure energy use and
direct policies toward the energy-efficient operation of the server and
PowerVM virtualization.
Price: (Estimated end-user price) Rs
4,20,000
Telephone: 1800-425-3303
Website: ibm.com
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 Features:
This server is powered by 4, 6, and 8 core 1.2 GHz or 8 core 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC
T2 processors; one processor per system supports a maximum of 64 threads
and 64 GB of memory. It supports the Common Integrated Lights Out Management
(ILOM) and a choice of Solaris 10 or Linux. It comes with 4 MB integrated
L2 Cache; dual, multithreaded processor; a 10G Ethernet port, 8 GB memory;
two 146 GB SAS HDDs, one 8 lane PCI-E, two 4 lane PCI-E OR XAUI, four
2.0 USB ports and two hot-swappable AC 720 W “Climate Saver”.
Price: Rs 4,00,000
Contact: Pankaj Agrawal
E-mail: Pankaj.Agrawal@sun.com
Website: sun.com
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Powered by a dual-core Intel Itanium processor with a standard three-year
warranty, the server supports HP-UX 11i, Microsoft Windows Server 2008
for Intel Itanium-based systems, Linux and OpenVMS. It offers you a choice
of I/O technologies (PCI-X or PCI EXPRESS), up to eight SAS drives (dual-channel)
offering more than 1 TB of internal storage, and in-box processor upgrades.
It comes with dual-port 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet, 10/100Base-T LAN for
Integrated Lights Out (iLO 2) management.
Price: Rs 4,00,000 onwards
Contact name: Aravind Vasudevan
Telephone: +91-99001-57827
E-mail: aravind.vasudevan@hp.com
Website: www.hp.com
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