Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced new members of its ClearPath family of enterprise servers, featuring a breakthrough architecture that combines the latest Intel processors with Unisys enterprise-class virtualization technology.
The new high-end ClearPath systems demonstrate that servers based on Intel processors can deliver large-scale mainframe performance rivaling that of systems based on proprietary processor architectures.
The new offerings comprise the high-end ClearPath Libra 6200 Series, the mid-range Libra 4200 Series, and the entry-level and mid-range ClearPath Dorado 4200 Series. All three series of systems use powerful new high-end members of the Intel® Xeon® Processor family. The new systems represent the latest stage in Unisys’ ongoing evolution of the ClearPath family to an open architecture based on Intel processors.
“Our new ClearPath systems represent the most dramatic proof yet of Unisys’ commitment to provide an increasingly powerful, open environment to meet our clients’ rapidly evolving enterprise application requirements,” said Bill Maclean, vice president, ClearPath portfolio management, Unisys. “We will continue integrating new technologies that enhance ClearPath systems’ unmatched power, security, reliability and availability to help our clients build on their long-term investment in mission-critical business applications.”
These “NextGen” systems enable ClearPath clients to continue using mission-critical applications without change, while simplifying application modernization and reducing enterprise-computing costs. The Unisys s-Par secure partitioning technology is designed for mission-critical environments, bringing enterprise-class virtualization to clients’ data centers and helping them streamline resource management and simplify application modernization.
Like all ClearPath Libra systems, the high-end ClearPath Libra 6200 Series runs the MCP operating environment. The system’s processor complex features full redundancy across components: processor/memory nodes, I/O subsystems, and parallel operations servers – yielding high performance and availability.
The mid-range Libra 4200 Series boosts processor performance up to 43 percent over that delivered by predecessor Intel processor-based Libra models, and improves I/O performance from 40 percent to 120 percent over that of comparable proprietary and Intel-based Libra systems, respectively.
The new ClearPath Dorado 4200 Series systems run the OS 2200 operating environment, and featuring a bundled specialty-engine module using s-Par technology, these systems provide up to 33 percent greater computing performance over comparable Intel processor-based predecessor models and up to 233 percent over previous proprietary models.
With basic configurations of the new ClearPath systems, the Libra 6200 Series is priced from $1.3 million, the Libra 4200 Series from $959,000, and the Dorado 4200 Series from $325,000.
All comparative performance information is based on performance testing conducted by Unisys using Unisys standard benchmark parameters.
