HP ships new blade server ProLiant xw460c

Yesterday, HP started shipping a new blade server, the ProLiant xw460c. HP describes it as the first workstation blade for the c-Class blade product line.

Virtual Connect is a unique solution to a data center headache, said Gordon Haff, principal analyst with Illuminata Inc.

"Virtual Connect does not eliminate [the work of configuring a network]. It still might take three or four weeks to do all that," Haff said. "But the idea is that you can basically do it once."

HP's share of the x86 platform blade market, based on revenue, rose to 33 percent in 2006 from 32 percent in 2005, while IBM's fell to 40 percent from 42 percent, said Jeffrey Hewitt, a Gartner analyst.

At the same time, though, the x86 blade market is growing. Global blade server revenue grew to $2.7 billion in 2006 from $2 billion in 2005 and unit shipments grew to 727,000 from 548,000 the year before, according to the Gartner report.
The list price for the blade server is $4,329.

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