Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 27, 2002, 2:09 PM PT
IBM is taking the long view for Intel-based servers.
The company is poised to release its first "blade" servers and 16-processor Intel-based systems in coming weeks. But right now Big Blue is more focused its Intel products for 2003, according to the head of IBM's Intel server group.
Among the parade of Intel server products scheduled for next year are a system with 32 Xeon chips, skinny "blade" servers with four Xeon processors apiece, and a line of Itanium 2 systems that start with four processors and move up to 16, said Susan Whitney, general manager of IBM's xSeries group. ...