XENON release new 8 way server : Krypton Octo XF2

23/07/2007

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. (July 15th, 2007) – XENON today announce the release of their new 8-way high-performance server solution, the Krypton OCTO XF2, designed specifically for powering applications such as; virtualisation and server consolidation, databases including MySQL and MS SQL Server, web application infrastructure , ERP, CRM, data warehousing, analytics and enterprise collaboration. 

The new platform features up to 8 AMD® Opteron 8222 3GHz dual core processors, providing a staggering total of 16 cores and 256GB memory capacity, expandable to 32 processors cores with the release of the AMD 8300 series Barcelona processors. The Krypton OCTO XF2 can improve certain application performance by 50 percent. Other benefits include:

• Double data centre compute capacity with no new real estate
• Lower maintenance and system update costs with modular upgrades 
• Grow compute services with minimal disruption 
• Reduce support costs and maintain higher server up time with lights-out remote management
• Support the applications you need on the same familiar server platform 
• Reduce hardware acquisition and on-going support costs with server consolidation and virtualisation

 “Today’s announcement is yet more proof of XENONs time-to-market leadership as we offer customers the latest in server innovation,” said Dragan Dimitrovici, Managing Director of XENON Systems Pty Ltd. “The new 8 way server address the customer demand for high throughput and energy efficient designs as they build out their next generation data centres.” 

The Krypton OCTO XF2 is available for immediate delivery. 

ABOUT XENON
XENON® Systems Pty Ltd, a fully owned Australian company, provides high performance computing solutions to technical, creative and corporate users. XENON’S solutions are employed in a wide range of demanding environments and industries which include; defence, education, manufacturing, broadcast, animation and digital content creation. 

*The Krypton OCTO XF2 has support for the new AMD Opteron 8300 series quad-core processors.