Boston Quattro 1332-T reviewed by V3.co.uk
02 December 2011 Source: www.v3.co.uk
V3.co.uk recently reviewed the Boston Quattro 1332-T and found that it has lot going for it, including support for the latest Xeon E3-1200 processors.
It can also work out cheaper than an equivalent stack of 1U servers, with redundant power and hot swap storage making it an appealing product.
The Boston Quattro 1332-T could easily be mistaken for a rack-mount storage array with its 16 hot-swap disk bays spread across the front...
...Walk round the back, however, and you'll find eight plug-in server modules, each with its own processor, memory and network interfaces. This turns an otherwise ordinary looking box into a self-contained server farm, suitable for traditional datacentre deployment or as a cloud computing hub...
...The hardware is from SuperMicro (Boston is the UK distributor), contained within a 3U rack-mount chassis...
...Overall, the Quattro 1332-T has lot going for it, including support for the latest Xeon E3-1200 processors. It can also work out cheaper than an equivalent stack of 1U servers, with redundant power and hot swap storage making it an appealing product...
...Of greater interest is the recently announced Boston Cloud Appliance, based on the Quattro 1332-T pre-configured with CA AppLogic software, to provide a turnkey cloud computing platform.
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