August 2009 - Posts

Dell Increases Footprint at the EEC
26 August 09 09:17 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   

Last week 20 new Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 servers arrived and are quickly being brought online for a customer engagement occurring in the next couple weeks. These servers contain Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® X5550 CPU’s, 24GB memory, eight 300GB SAS HDDs, and Read More...

Filed under: Facility/Remodel, Partners

Customers testing on 256 Processor Superdome
18 August 09 03:19 PM | EEC | 1 Comments   

Recently I was able to work with BWIN, the world’s largest online sports-betting and gaming provider, at the EEC while they tested the scaling of their workload on the world’s largest Windows Server, a HP Superdome with 128 cores and 256 threads, and Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Windows Server, SQL

More HP ProLiant DL380 G6’s Arriving
10 August 09 02:31 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   

While I was on vacation a couple weeks ago we received 10 new HP ProLiant® DL380 G6's equipped with dual Intel® Xeon® X5570 CPU’s, , 24GB memory, dual port 8Gbps fiber channel adapter, 2 146GB 15K SAS drives and dual power supplies. These were the 1 st Read More...

Filed under: Facility/Remodel, Partners, Windows Server, SQL

New IBM Storage Comes to the EEC
06 August 09 12:44 PM | EEC | 4 Comments   

This week we just completed installing a new IBM XIV® Storage System: Model 2810 in san-alley. Ours is configured with 180 1TB SATA drives, and 15 modules; a data module consists of one Intel® Xeon® Quad-core 64-bit CPU, 8 GB fully buffered DIMM RAM. Read More...

Filed under: Facility/Remodel, Partners