NEC new blade: single chassis can accommodate UPS, tape backup
NEC Japan launched new products Express5800/SIGMABLADE blade server, specifically for the company has eight small and medium enterprises under the server launch, strengthen the power, space, and centralized device functions.
NEC said it was able to launch the industry's first UPS uninterruptible power devices, tape backup device and I / O shared switch incorporated in the same chassis (blade chassis) in the blade server, the development of the ontology server, power stabilization, to streamline data backup and other functions integrated in one system.
Rack with the launch of NEC in the past (rack mount) products compared to new Express5800/SIGMABLADE can save 50% of the space requirements, power consumption is reduced by about 30%, reduce the weight for the past 55%, while the power cord the number of Internet lines with only 10% of the past.
The launch will be synchronized with the server chassis-based UPS uninterruptible power plant built by nickel-metal hydride batteries, so the general use of the product compared to lead batteries, with a small light-weight, long life, charging time is short, etc.; tape backup device AT101a LTO4 tape storage specification corresponds to a maximum of 800GB of uncompressed backup data.
In addition, free connection equipment inside and outside the chassis I / O shared switch will launch in Q2 2011, it is equipped with card expansion card, such as FC, SAS card allows multiple blade servers share, you can change the system structure WebSAM SigmaSystemCenter3.0 through special software to simple implementation