November 8, 2005

According to reports, Hewlett-Packard will introduce today its first blade server based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor.

HP's new dual-processor BL60p Intel-based server will enable customers to run HP-UX on blades for the first time.

It will reportedly run at 1.4 and 1.6 GHz, and uses 3 MB of cache memory.

Customers will also have the option of running Linux or Windows as an alternative to Unix.

HP's BL60p is immediately available for $5,695. NEC and Hitachi also market blades that use Itanium processors.

Source: The WHIR