HA’s In Love
Last night I was updating the website for my user group (the Triad SBS Group) and after I finished, it occured to me that I had not shared anything about this great new hardware platform from Intel that I have fallen in love with.
I don’t want y’all to feel slighted so here is what I wrote. Complete with links so you can read up on it as well as EBS.
At Our Feburary Meeting
In February we had a good round table discussion and then I was able to share some of what I learned in Chicago at the boot camp put on by Intel featuring their new Intel Modular Server Platform. Everyone was intrigued with this new product, I wish I could have had one to demo there instead of just the pictures from the marketing DVD they gave us.
This is some really cool technology and in my mind a natural fit for the upcoming release from Microsoft called Windows Essential Business Server which needs a minimum of 3 servers just to install but will most likely end up being 4 or 5 if you do a full suite and add a Terminal Server. The Intel Modular Server tops out at 6 compute modules, so that would allow the entire EBS Premium Suite, a TS and a stand-by module for redundancy! With it’s 14 bay internal SAN the only thing you need to add is a back-up device.