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Mobility, Flexibility, Small Form Factor Set Tadpole Rack Mount Servers Apart
Systems Provide Universal Building Blocks to Deploy Virtualization, Mobile Environments
December 11, 2009,
Volume 142, Issue 2

Tadpole Rack Mount Servers provide users with the capability to meet new demands and engage emerging trends like virtualization and cloud computing, along with a choice in operating systems and long-term support.
 

Ensuring that critical, decision-quality information flows seamlessly, securely and expediently in the most demanding field conditions, TadpoleR Rack Mount Servers offer rapidly deployable, mobile-rugged computing systems to meet current systems needs as well as those planned for the future.

The expense and complexity of supporting existing infrastructure investments through a standard program life cycle has become increasingly challenging as rapidly evolving requirements are demanding support for multiple IT environments. Tadpole systems support SPARC and x64 environments as well as multiple OS options, providing a universal building block to extend the life of existing infrastructure while laying the groundwork to deploy next generation requirements.

Flexibility in the Tadpole Rack Mount Servers provides users with the capability to meet new demands and engage emerging trends like virtualization and cloud computing, along with a choice in operating systems and long-term support.

These servers have proven to be indispensable for sustaining mission critical applications in an array of deployments, including:

  • military communications
  • command and control
  • global combat support
  • missile defense
  • ISR
  • defense mapping
  • shipboard command and control

Available as Tadpole VR2100s Rack Mount Server with 64-bit 1.6GHz dual UltraSPARC IIIi processors or Tadpole VR2200a Rack Mount Server with dual-socket AMD Opteron processors running at 1.8GHz to 2.6GHz, both solutions offer the same form factor -- only a 2U of height and 14.5” of depth in a standard 19” rack -- ensuring flexibility, high performance and power efficiency in only a fraction of the space required by legacy and alter­native solutions. Tadpole Rack Mount Servers are compatible with Solaris, Linux, UNIX and Windows-based applications.

Tadpole VR2100s Rack Mount Server

The Tadpole VR2100s is a fully deployable, mobile network server that is small and light enough to be hand carried for rapid deployment in military or disaster recovery situations. It has the capability to run Solaris and Windows applications on the same machine while simultaneously providing secure network access to multiple security domains. It is available with dual UltraSPARC IIIi processors running the Solaris OS, plus the option of a fully integrated AMD all-in-one computer for Windows or Linux applications.

Features

  • 1 or 2 64-bit 1.6GHz UltraSPARC IIIi Processors
  • Up to 16GB ECC DRAM (8GB per processor)
  • Dual removable 2.5” high performance hard disk drives
  • 100% binary compatible with any of the 13,000 Solaris technical computing and enterprise class applications
  • Optional Integrated Windows/Linux Co-Processor
  • 3 Copper Segregated Gigabit Ethernet Ports
  • 4 PCIe x4 (x8 physical) low profile expansion slots
  • 2 PCMCIA/CardBus slots
  • 5 USB 2.0 ports (4 front, 1 rear)
  • 1 Fast/Wide SCSI port
  • 2 Serial ports
  • Optical Drive

Details

Tadpole VR2200a Rack Mount Server

The Tadpole VR2200a supports the most compute/memory intensive applications with ease. It uses one or two genuine dual-socket AMD Opteron processors running up to 2.6 GHz and up to 32GB DDR2 ECC memory. A full compliment of integrated peripherals is augmented with four PCIe expansion slots to guarantee that I/O is never a limita­tion. Flexible, the Tadpole VR2200a supports two 7200 RPM removable hard drives with capacity of up to 160GB each. The unit has two copper independent RJ45 10/100/1000 Ethernet jacks for network flexibility.

Features

  • 1 or 2 dual-socket AMD Opteron processors running at 1.8GHz to 2.6GHz
  • Dual removable 2.5” SATA Hard Disk Drives
  • Up to 32GB ECC DRAM
  • Multiple operating systems supported
  • 5 PCIe slots
  • 7 USB 2.0 ports (4 front, 3 rear)
  • 2 Serial ports
  • Optical Drive

Details

Promotion

Special year end promotion offering substantial savings on new product under new warranty, to support your SPARC IIIi/Solaris 8 architecture .

More Information

Tadpole VR2100s Rack Mount Server

Tadpole VR2200a Rack Mount Server

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