HP Amps Up Integrity Server Line With Montecito Processors
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| HP is tapping the power of the new dual-core Intel Latest News about
| Intel Itanium Montecito processor to offer mainframe-caliber high
| availability with HP-UX 11i, Microsoft Latest News about
| Microsoft Windows, Linux or OpenVMS operating environments in the
| Integrity rx6600 and rx3600 servers.
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| Microsoft Buys In
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| HP is not the only technology giant standing with Intel. Microsoft is
| also showing its support for the Integrity line. In fact, Microsoft is
| committed to Integrity as a key component of its business strategy of
| RISC replacement with the Windows platform.
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| "Microsoft will continue our investment in the Itanium platform and the
| HP Integrity server line along with Windows Server 'Longhorn,' which
| will optimize for workloads focused on mission-critical high-end
| applications," said Bob Muglia, senior vice president, server and
| tools business, Microsoft.
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| Later this year, HP plans to add support for Windows to HP Integrity
| Virtual Machines and allow multiple operating system instances to share a
| single processor. At that time, HP plans to extend support for HP Integrity
| Essentials Capacity Advisor and Virtualization Manager to Windows and
| Linux.
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It's too much about relationship rather than the making of rational choices.
Even Dell's loveaffair with Intel has led to scrutiny before.
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