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Slated for Release in January 2007, the PetaBlade II Uses the Latest Technology to Maximize Efficiency and Minimize Power and Cooling: Utilizing its strength in performance-per-watt computing, Western Scientific unveiled its energy efficient PetaBlade II platform, which is slated for release in January 2007. Businesses are requesting systems that are easy to manage, in terms of floor space, power, and cooling costs. Western Scientific harnesses the latest technology to increase server density, creating more power per square foot, and lowering cooling costs. The PetaBlade II offers major performance-per-watt advantages over standard servers for commercial markets. Energy–efficient computing is an essential step for the industry as large businesses seek to reduce operating costs. "Today, companies are plagued with skyrocketing operating costs, shrinking budgets, and competitive driven result times,” states Doug Johnson, Western Scientific’s VP of Marketing. “The PetaBlade II is one of the key elements to eradicating the plague. When combined with intelligent job scheduling tools, compilers, and the latest resource efficient CPU technology, the PetaBlade II accelerates innovation despite the plague." The PetaBlade II does more than address server issues. It also manages computing infrastructure challenges. Cutting edge capabilities are used to assimilate computing, storage, power, and network resources into a high-performance virtualized, highly available environment. This results in a drastically lowered total cost of ownership (TCO) for an assorted set of applications, including database clustering, HPC computing, virtualization, server farms, and Web hosting.