Intel Enables Dealers And System Integrators To Customize Server Hardware Online

Online Server Integration Tools and Additions to Boxed Product Lines Provide New Resources for Continued e-Business Build-Out

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 15, 2001 -- Intel Corporation today announced its Server Design Center, an interactive, online tool for customizing server configuration. Intel also unveiled two new boxed server products, the Intel® Server Platform SRMK2 and the Intel® SR2100 Rack Mount Chassis, to be offered through Intel's worldwide channel program.

"Our customers have consistently asked us for help in two areas: sizing server solutions and configuring a server with the latest hardware and software," said Mark Beckford, director of channel marketing for Intel's Reseller Products Group. "The Server Design Center delivers both in an intuitive, easy-to-use Web-based tool."

The Server Design Center tool allows integrators and dealers who are members of the Intel® Product Dealer program to customize server hardware for the unique business needs of their customers. Through use of a dynamic online configurator, the Server Design Center engine, powered by Selectica's* e-Business driven platform, provides server building blocks with validated third party server software and hardware components, to enable Intel® Product Dealers to cost-efficiently build a fully configured and tailored server system. Intel engineering validates all Intel server building blocks specified in the Server Design Center, thus increasing the reliability of each system.

Dealers and system integrators can build the configured server systems based on a number of Intel boxed products ranging from the STL2 server board supporting dual Intel® Pentium® III processors with 133 MHz system bus to the SRKA4 server platform supporting four Intel® Pentium® III Xeon™ processors and up to 16 GB of PC100 SDRAM memory. The Server Design Center also includes two new Intel boxed products, the Intel® Server Platform SRMK2 and the Intel® SR2100 2U Rack Server Chassis.

The Intel Server Platform SRMK2 offers increased density, availability and flexibility in a 1U server platform. Designed for e-Business and Internet applications such as Web hosting and data centers, the new server platform addresses the importance of saving space. Key features include support for up to two Intel® Pentium® III processors and 4 GB of PC133 SDRAM memory, sensors on the board to monitor voltage and temperature, and support for two hot-swap SCSI drives that enhance reliability. Multiple drives, memory, storage, operating system and connectivity options give system integrators and dealers the flexibility to customize the server platform to each customer's environment.

Ideal for service providers, parallel server applications and other space-constrained, high-transaction computing environments, the Intel SR2100 2U Rack Server Chassis is specifically designed to complement the features of Intel® Server Board STL2, such as dual Pentium® III processor capability, peer PCI with 64 bit/66MHz support, and integrated Intel® Server Management to deliver affordable and highly available, scalable, high density servers.

More information about the Server Design Center and the two new additions to Intel's boxed product line can be found online at the Intel® Server Builder Web site, www.intel.com/go/serverbuilder. Intel Server Builder provides server product information, technical support information and sales tools that allow system builders to integrate and sell servers with more ease.

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