New Gateway servers for business, education

Gateway on Monday announced three servers that it says are suitable for customers in the business, education and government sectors.

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The servers feature Intel's E7520 and E7320 chipsets and Xeon processors, along with hyperthreading technology and an 800MHz front-side bus. (The bus is the pipeline for data flow from the processor into memory.)

The new servers also support 64-bit extended memory technology, Gateway said.

The new 9510 tower server series replaces the 960X and 980 servers, while the new rack-mounted 9515 series replaces the 975 server, Gateway said.

The third offering Gateway has unveiled, the 9315 series, replaces the company's 955 server. The 9315 is also rack-mounted.

All three of the new servers include Intel's 64-bit Xeon processors, which feature the 800MHz front-side bus, new PCI Express architecture and 1MB level 2 cache. A chip's cache is a pool of memory that stores data close to the processor core.

The 9510 includes integrated dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI with embedded hardware, RAID 0, 1 and 5 options, and a redundant power supply and fan options.

Pricing of the 9510 series begins at $1,199 and that of the 9515 series at $1,499. The 9315 series starts at $999, the computer maker said.

Gateway is a relatively small player in a server market dominated by giants like IBM and Hewlett-Packard.