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BLUE BELL, PA -- Substantial boosts in server performance and a new measure of systems management simplicity are now combined on “the world's most scalable server based on Microsoft and Intel technology.” Unveiling the new Enterprise Server ES7000/200 with Unisys Server Sentinel, Unisys provides these advantages with improved price-performance compared to earlier-generation ES7000 servers. The combination helps enterprises simplify their information technology infrastructures while extending the benefits of Microsoft standardization to the data center. The Unisys ES7000/200 Enterprise Server is the latest model in the ES7000 family of servers based on Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture and technologies. The CMP architecture provides the mainframe characteristics needed to support the kind of large-scale, e-business and mission-critical applications and databases that once required mainframes or higher-priced large Unix systems. With the addition of the Intel Xeon Processor MP and new Server Sentinel systems management on the Unisys Enterprise Server ES7000/200, Unisys continues to deliver on the promise of investment protection while supplying unprecedented levels of scalability and price/performance. A Unisys ES7000 originally equipped with an earlier Intel Pentium III Xeon processor can be boosted in performance with an upgrade to the new 1.4 or 1.6 GHz Intel Xeon processor MP. By providing the capability for incremental performance upgrades, ES7000 servers offer substantially reduced total cost of ownership compared to commodity server architectures. A key step in the evolution of the Unisys Intel-based mainframe and the Unisys strategy to accelerate the growth of Unisys high-end servers, the ES7000/200 provides the ability to combine 32-bit and 64-bit computing in one environment. The server's support for both the new Intel Xeon processors MP and 64-bit Intel Itanium processors gives customers the flexibility and investment protection to plan and develop for future 64-bit production while deploying mainframe-class, 32-bit applications today on the same system. The only server that takes full advantage of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter operating system's support for 32-processor scalability, the ES7000/200 provides the mainframe-class capacity and performance needed to host very large OLTP and business intelligence databases. By avoiding the complexities of splitting the database across multiple clustered commodity servers, enterprises maximize database response time while minimizing the costs of administration skills, electricity and floor space. The ES7000's partitioning capabilities enable enterprises to configure servers within a single server to consolidate multiple, heterogeneous applications and operating environments. Administrators manage one server instead of a collection of discrete servers that need to be managed individually. "The common message we're hearing from customers is that the complexities of multiple applications and operating environments that drive the proliferation of servers are creating chaos in the data center," said Mark Feverston, vice president, Unisys Server Programs. "Complexity equals costs, and the key to simplifying the data center is standardization and consolidation of technologies. Building on industry-standard Microsoft and Intel technologies, the ES7000/200 provides the self-healing and self-regulating management capabilities needed to reduce support and training costs." Unisys Server Sentinel: Centralized management means simplified management The Unisys ES7000/200 incorporates Server Sentinel, a new suite of technologies featuring self-management and self-healing features. Bundling Unisys Server Sentinel with all shipments of the Unisys ES7000/200, Unisys is bolstering one of the key advantages -- management simplicity -- of the "scale-up" server paradigm compared to scaling out by clustering many commodity servers. It builds on proven systems management capabilities created especially for scale-up computing. It delivers the self-managing capabilities promised by yet-to-be-delivered technology from other companies. Unisys Server Sentinel monitors system health, detects errors or exceeded thresholds, and takes corrective action automatically. It includes features for minimizing operator error, improving overall system availability and avoiding unplanned downtime. The result is mainframe-class reliability and resource management flexibility combined with the cost advantages for which Microsoft and Intel technologies are known. The software enables the Unisys ES7000 service subsystem to take automated corrective and preventative measures - often before the system failure even occurs. It includes interfaces to popular enterprise management suites for maintaining application uptime and for ensuring the health of global networks. At the platform and operating system level, Unisys Server Sentinel includes an array of technologies for optimizing performance, maintaining business continuance and streamlining systems administration operations. These include: System health monitoring -- Offering a consolidated view of all ES7000 components, Server Sentinel's Web-based interface, management wizards and reporting tools give the systems administrator a single, at-a-glance view of all relevant configuration and system status information. Self healing -- Server Sentinel packages an array of scripts for automating recovery in advance of a failure, for both hardware and operating system software. Unattended operations -- Server Sentinel's automates manual tasks, manages CPU workloads and enables the software to allocate resources dynamically within an ES7000 server partition. System health adviser -- Server Sentinel provides an array of reports on event and performance data, enabling administrators to view and share historical snapshots of server operations and analyze performance data. The new Unisys ES7000/200, configured with the Intel Xeon processor MP and the new Server Sentinel software, ranges from $100,000 to $1 million. It will be available in April.