Tatung Science and Technology, Inc.

TATUNG ANNOUNCES NEW BLADE SERVER WITH UP TO 196 INTEL® XEON™ PROCESSOR BASED SERVERS PER RACK

Server features high performance and high availability, with systems management built-in; all with low power consumption

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San Francisco, CA – August 4th, 2003 – Tatung Science & Technology, Inc. (TSTI®), is introducing a new ultra-dense blade server that accommodates up to 14 independent server blades in a single 3U 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-3114 features integrated switch blades and management blades, supporting up to 196 Intel® Xeon™ processor-based servers per rack. With multiple server blades, redundant switch blades, management blades, power supplies and fan modules, the system offers built-in high availability and management, all with low power consumption.

Optimized for Performance
In a single 3U rack-mountable chassis, the TUD-3114 can accommodate up to 14 server blades, two switch blades, two management blades with failover capability, three redundant power supplies and two high performance fan modules. Each server blade can be configured with power-saving low voltage Intel Xeon processors at 2.0 GHz, up to 4 GB of ECC registered DDR266 memory (two DIMM slots), IDE 2.5 inch hard disk drives, dual 1 GB Ethernet (using Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Connection) connected to two switch blades, video controllers with VGA and SVGA resolutions and support for USB CD-ROM and FDD. Components are hot-swappable with each blade featuring activity indicator LEDs for the CPU, primary and secondary networks and HDD. The TUD-3114 blade server supports Window 2000, Window Server 2003 and Linux operating systems.

" The new servers fully integrate all the features that today’s extremely cost-conscious customers demand. We have greatly increased the number of servers that can be installed in a single rack, while lowering power usage requirements using high performance 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," according to Dr. Kam Chan, president of Tatung Science and Technology, Inc. (TSTI), a U.S. subsidiary of the multi-national Tatung Company. “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-3114 integrates 14 server blades in a 3U chassis, allowing up to 196 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 as little as 48 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 power savings to the data center. Further savings are achieved through the reduced air conditioning, UPS and backup power requirements.

“ Intel-based ultra dense blade servers deliver the performance, reliability, manageability, connectivity and power saving features that IT managers need,” said Hemant Dhulla, director of enterprise volume platform marketing, Intel Corporation. “These servers can address the need of data centers to increase server density and manageability with high performance processors while meeting existing power requirements.”

Integrated Management Blades and Management Software Cuts Costs and Increases Server Availability ManageSite™ software from Amphus® is fully integrated with the TUD-3114. It interfaces with the management blade to provide policy-based automated provisioning and hardware monitoring. The integrated software and management blade allow 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.
“ Data center customers have recognized availability and manageability as key TCO (total cost of ownership) issues,” said Henry Fung, chairman and CEO of Amphus. “With the integration of Amphus’ ManageSite server management solution, the TUD 3114 platform offers data center customers breakthrough provisioning and remote management capabilities, enabling them to realize substantial TCO savings.”

Customer uses Tatung system for Secure Email Gateway
MessageSoft®, Inc., Fremont, CA, develops products which provide full control over the security and usage of any corporate email system at the gateway level, protecting against productivity loss, network downtime and vulnerability of informational assets associated with unsolicited or malicious email. They are combining the TUD-3114 with their secure messaging technologies for data center customers.

" This is an excellent combination of hardware and software, each designed for high performance, and each designed to accommodate distributed processing," said Jonathan Jiang, MessageSoft's President. "Tatung understands that innovative software such as MessageSoft's Secure Message Gateway provide the applications that best take advantage of server products such as the TUD-3114, which allow customers to easily add and deploy server blades individually as the workload gets heavier."

Tatung Science and Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of high-end workstations and servers, and a U.S. subsidiary of the over $7 billion, multi-national Tatung Company. Tatung Company is a worldwide provider of products for the computer, communications and consumer markets. For more information, contact Tatung Science and Technology, Inc., 436 Kato Terrace, Fremont, CA 94539; 1-800-659-5902; email: mkt@tsti.com; web site: http://www.tsti.com.