Unisys Server Improves Price/Performance

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Unisys Server Improves Price/Performance 46 Percent in Record
TPC-E Benchmark Performance

Unisys ES7000 system also delivers 22 percent lower TCO than previous leader, makes scalability more affordable for large and mid-size companies alike

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R Enterprise Server has set records for price/performance and performance by an 8-socket system in the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) TPC-E benchmark.

The TPC-E benchmark measures the online transaction processing (OLTP) performance of servers in a rigorous enterprise data centre environment. This result reinforces the price/performance leadership of the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R among servers with more than four sockets.

In the benchmark test, the ES7000 Model 7600R server delivered 46 percent better price/performance and 45 percent better performance than the previous 8-socket leader, with a 22 percent lower total cost of ownership.(1) The Unisys server achieved 1165.56 tpsE with a best-in-class economic analysis of US$783.56 per tpsE. Performance in the benchmark test is measured as transactions per second for the E benchmark (tpsE), while economic efficiency is shown as dollars per tpsE (US$/tpsE) calculated as three-year cost of ownership divided by tpsE.

“The Unisys server’s performance in this premier benchmark test shows that the 8-socket ES7000 Model 7600R is ideal for organisations needing to get more return from their investments in today’s ‘less is more’ economic climate,” said Colin Lacey, vice president, Systems and Storage, Unisys Systems and Technology. “The ES7000 Model 7600R is ideal not just for large-scale enterprises, but also for mid-sized organisations that don’t require the full 16-socket capability but need the capacity to scale up their server resources to meet business-transaction requirements at lower cost.”

The ES7000 Model 7600R in the benchmark testing used eight 6-core Intel Xeon processors 7400 Series, for a total of 48 processor cores. The configuration ran the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (x64) operating environment, using a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition database server.

“The results that the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R has achieved in the TPC-E benchmark show how an advanced server architecture running the Microsoft Windows Server environment can help enterprise clients realise operational and economic value,” said Jim Fredricksen, senior director, Microsoft OEM Server Sales at Microsoft Corp. “With servers such as the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R, customers are able to take advantage of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and Windows Server Datacenter to easily scale to adapt to the increased needs for data warehousing, transaction processing, e-mail capacity, and similar business-critical workloads while increasing performance and decreasing costs of operating their data centres.”

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