Adding a new dimension in power to its high-end Unisys ES7000 Enterprise Server family, Unisys announced the ES7000 Model 7405R. This new model expands clients’ options for hosting virtualized applications in a real-time infrastructure. Supporting up to eight Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, a single model 7405R server can host a whole suite of virtualized applications. The system features new Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology, which improves memory management for virtual machines and optimizes performance. The new model also provides efficient power supply design, which minimizes energy loss, and improved cooling capabilities, which lower power consumption and reduce operational costs.

In a comparative benchmark against a two-socket quad-core commodity server – the kind of small system on which virtualization deployments are typically done today – the Model 7405R yielded better performance on virtualized workloads. The system supported 128 virtual machines, versus 12 on the other system, at a 66 percent lower cost per virtual machine. In addition, the Model 7405R reduced the three-year total cost of ownership by 66 percent and provided a 72 percent reduction in power and cooling costs.

The ES7000 Model 7405R supports multiple operating environments, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2003 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard Editions; Microsoft Virtual Server; Red Hat Enterprise Linux; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; and Sun Microsystems Solaris 10.