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Tatung Company is introducing a new ultra-dense blade server that accommodates up to 10 independent dual processor server blades in a single 4U form factor chassis. Data centers achieve substantial total cost of ownership (TCO) savings with the new system’s high performance, high density, built-in manageability and significant savings in power consumption. The TUD-4010 features integrated switch blades and management blades, supporting up to 200 Intel® Xeon™ processors per rack. Completely modular, with hot-swappable components including multiple server blades, redundant switch blades, management blades, power supplies and fan modules, the system offers built-in high availability, allowing no single point of failure. Optimized for Performance In a single 4U rack-mountable chassis, the TUD-4010 can accommodate up to 10 server blades, two switch blades, two management blades with failover capability, 3+1 redundant power supplies and two high performance fan modules. Each server blade can be configured with dual power-saving low voltage Intel Xeon processors at 2.4 GHz, with front size bus speeds (FSB) at 533 MHz; up to 8 GB of ECC registered DDR266 memory (four DIMM slots); IDE 2.5 inch hard disk drives; dual 1 GB Ethernet connected to two switch blades; video controllers with VGA and SVGA resolutions and support for USB CD-ROM and FDD; plus one low-profile PCIx slot for various add-on cards options such as FCAL, iSCSI, and gigabit Ethernet. Components are hot-swappable with each blade featuring activity indicator LEDs for the CPU, primary and secondary networks and HDD. The TUD-4010 blade server supports Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Linux operating systems. “The TUD-4010 servers enable the highest density of high performance components, freeing up valuable data center space,” according to Dr. Kam Chan, president of Tatung Science and Technology, Inc. (TSTI), a U.S. subsidiary of the multi-national Tatung Company. "The new servers fully integrate all the features that today’s extremely cost-conscious customers demand. We have greatly increased the number of processors that can be installed in a single rack, while lowering power usage requirements using high performance, low voltage Intel Xeon processors. At the same time, we have reduced the number of wire connections, and also provided powerful data management software for deployment, platform, power and workload management," “Customers will benefit from the increased performance of the blade server environment, while saving on power consumption, all in one manageable package.” High Density and Power Savings While the TUD-4010 integrates 10 server blades in a 4U chassis, allowing up to 200 Intel Xeon processors in a single 42U height rack, the effective density is even higher. The system includes dual Gigabit ethernet switches and dual management blades, each of which would normally consume an additional 1U of rack space. Each server blade consumes an average of 76 Watts (with an average configuration and load consisting of 2GB of memory and a 40GB hard disk drive.). These power and space-saving efficiencies provide direct cost savings to the data center. Further savings are achieved through the reduced air conditioning, UPS and backup power requirements. “With the introduction of these dual processor blades, Tatung's blade servers can address the needs of end users to increase the agility and reduce the total cost of ownership of their datacenters," said Hemant Dhulla, director of Enterprise Volume Platform Marketing, Intel Corporation. "The low-voltage Intel® Xeon™ processors will help deliver the performance, reliability, and power saving features that IT demands; coupled with the system design and manageability software, these blade systems offer sophisticated Intel® Architecture-based modular computing capabilities to the enterprise." Integrated Management Blades and Management Software Cuts Costs and Increases Server Availability ManageSitetm software from Amphus is fully integrated with the TUD-4010. It interfaces with the management blade to provide policy-based automated provisioning and hardware monitoring. The integrated software and management blade allows remote management of the blade servers, lights-out and out-of-band management of the server blades and automatic switch-over for high availability. Internal AMPC serial channel communication controllers monitor voltage, temperature, speed of each blade and module, and offer the ability to cycle power, shut-down and reset any module. "Enterprise and data center customers know that management is a big percentage of total cost of ownership (TCO)," said Henry Fung, chairman and CEO of Amphus. "With the integration of Amphus' ManageSite server management solution, the TUD 4010 platform includes bare metal capabilities, provisioning, monitoring and remote management that sharply reduce the TCO. We expect that the award-winning integration in the TUD-3114 will once again be recognized in the TUD-4010 that Tatung manufactures. ManageSite's heterogeneous capabilities enable these same management features to be used across all infrastructures by Tatung's customers who are adding the 4U to their existing server installations."