The sections that follow present the history of Compaq innovation in industry standard servers by year of announcement and server family.

The TaskSmart C1200R, designed for small ISPs and remote branch offices, handles up to 250 requests per second in client acceleration mode and up to 1000 requests per second in server acceleration mode. It ships with a 450 MHz processor, 256 MB of memory, one 9.1 GB hard drive, and two 10/100 Ethernet ports.

Targeted to regional ISPs and e-Commerce focused medium-sized businesses, the TaskSmart C1500R supports disk cloning and disk mirroring. The standard shipping configuration includes a 450 MHz processor, 512 MB of memory, two 9.1 GB hot pluggable hard drives, and three 10/100 Ethernet ports.

Intended for ISPs and enterprise networks, the TaskSmart C2000R manages up to 1200 requests per second in client acceleration mode. It shipped with a 450 MHz processor, 1 GB memory, six 9.1 GB hot pluggable hard drives, and five 10/100 Ethernet ports.

The ProLiant 8500, based on the Profusion architecture - jointly developed by Compaq, Corollary, and Intel - offers excellent scalability driven by its balanced system architecture. Designed to meet the demands of data mining, thin client, ERP, and eBusiness, this system provides 8-way scalable performance for 24x7 multi-server rack environments. The ProLiant 8500 provides push-button hot-plug, tool-free internal design, and integrated lift handles and power bay covers for ease of maintenance.

The ProLiant 8500 supports one to eight Intel 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon processors with 100 MHz front-side bus and full-speed cache. It ships with eleven 64-Bit PCI I/O expansion slots (all PCI Hot Plug), an integrated Smart Array Controller (Ultra2 Support, RAID 0, 0 + 1, 1, and 5 support), and a DualPort 64-bit NC3131 PCI 10/100 Mb/s Auto Sensing NIC (upgradable to Gigabit Ethernet). The ProLiant 8500 includes 100 MHz SDRAM DIMM 2-way interleaved memory expandable to 16 GB. In addition, it supports an internal hot-plug drive storage of 72.8 GB and 35.2 TB of external storage using Fibre Channel Host Adapters, hubs, and Array Storage Subsystems.

The ProLiant 8000 delivers the performance and uptime required to meet both current and future demands of enterprise server consolidation, eBusiness, ERP, thin client, and data mining applications. Based on the Profusion architecture jointly developed by Compaq, Corollary, and Intel, the ProLiant 8000 offers the highest levels of internal fault tolerance storage for 24x7 performance. This ultra-capacity data center server operates with up to eight Intel 700 MHz Pentium III Xeon processors with 1 MB or 2 MB L2 cache. It ships with 100 MHz SDRAM DIMM memory expandable to 16 GB.

The ProLiant 8000 supports 21 one-inch hot plug Wide Ultra2 SCSI drives, a Smart Array 4250 ES Controller (cableless) with optional redundancy available. It comes with ten 64-bit PCI and one 32-bit PCI I/O expansion slots, all PCI Hot Plug as well as a DualPort 64-bit NC3131 PCI 10/100 MB/s Auto Sensing NIC upgradeable to Gigabit Ethernet.

The ProLiant DL360 offers a solution for customers focused on saving space in the data center but planning to scale their environment by adding servers in the tens, hundreds, or even thousands. Its incredible, ultra-thin 1U chassis houses up to two 1.26 GHz Pentium III processors in both single pack and 3-pack SKUs, 128 MB of 133 MHz ECC registered SDRAM DIMM memory expandable to 4 GB, and a 133 MHz GTL bus to deliver uncompromising performance.

Other state-of-the-art components include dual peer-PCI bus architecture with 64-bit/33-MHz and 32 bit/33 MHz PCI, standard Integrated Smart Array Controller, and two embedded Compaq NC3163 Fast Ethernet 10/100 WOL (Wake on LAN) NICs, and a total internal storage capacity up to 145.6 GB.

The ProLiant DL360 offers unsurpassed expansion capability and deployment flexibility. It supports four total bays, two full-length expansion card slots, and two removable media bays–one for the diskette drive and one for the low profile 24X Max IDE CD-ROM drive. The hot-plug drive area supports two 1-inch 7200-rpm, 10,000- rpm, or 15,000-rpm Ultra2 or Ultra3 hot-plug drives, with up to 72.8 GB of standard capacity.

Deployment environments for the ProLiant DL360 include massive data centers needing server management or regional data centers requiring remote management.

This dense rack server solution, the follow-on to the ProLiant 1850R, offers uncompromising performance, expanded availability, and unprecedented configuration flexibility. The spacesaving 3U chassis houses state-of-the-art components, such as a 1-GHz Pentium III processor scalable to dual processors. Standard features also include 128 MB of 133 MHz ECC registered SDRAM DIMM memory (expandable to 4 GB) and a 133 MHz GTL bus to deliver excellent performance.

The dual peer PCI bus architecture, three 64-bit PCI slots, one 32-bit PCI slot, and Integrated Smart Array Controller offer additional performance and availability. The ProLiant DL380 ships standard with a Compaq NC3163 10/100 MB/s Fast Ethernet NIC with WOL capabilities and up to 145.6 GB hot-plug storage capacity. The highly serviceable chassis houses four 1-inch Wide-Ultra2/Ultra3 hot-plug SCSI drive bays, supporting Web hosting, mail, file/print, or small database applications with no functionality tradeoffs. This server offers an optional two-drive expansion bay.

Ideal for both remote site and data center deployment, the ProLiant DL380 is an unbeatable workgroup rack solution. The performance, availability, and scalability deliver unsurpassed investment protection.

This dual-processor server meets the needs of both small corporate workgroups and small/medium businesses by delivering manageability, serviceability, and availability features at an affordable price. It features the latest Pentium III 1-GHz processors, support for 64-bit PCI cards, and 128 MB of 133 MHz ECC registered SDRAM memory (upgradable to 4 GB), and a 133 MHz front-side bus. The integrated Dual-Channel Wide-Ultra3 SCSI Controller meets the most demanding performance requirements.

This platform, developed from the ProLiant 800 and Prosignia Server 740, features four hard drive bays, four removable media bays, four 64-bit PCI slots, two 32-bit PCI slots (three available), and one dedicated ISA slot. The ProLiant ML350 offers hot-plug hard drive support on certain models and all models support 10,000 rpm 36 GB one-inch drives. Other standard features include an integrated Compaq NC3163 Fast Ethernet PCI 10/100 WOL NIC and RJ-45 connector and a 300-watt power-factor correcting power supply. The ProLiant ML350 serves as a file/print, Web, email, or small database application platform.

Building on the strengths of the benchmark ProLiant 1600, the Compaq ProLiant ML370 multi-purpose server solution delivers uncompromising performance, expanded availability, unprecedented configuration flexibility, and industry-leading manageability.

The redesigned 5U chassis house state-of-the-art components, such as the dual 1-GHz Pentium III processors, 128 MB of 133 MHz registered SDRAM ECC DIMM memory (expandable to 4 GB), and a 133 MHz front-side bus to deliver high performance. The ProLiant ML370 supports six one-inch Wide Ultra2 or Wide Ultra3 hot-plug SCSI hard drives and contains an embedded NC3163 Fast Ethernet 10/100 WOL NIC.

Additional features include dual-peer PCI bus architecture for access to four high bandwidth 64-bit/33 MHz PCI slots and an optional Integrated Smart Array Controller for additional performance and availability. It provides ten bays to support Web hosting, mail, file/print, or small database applications without functionality tradeoffs and optional Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition for full virtual presence from any remote site.

The ProLiant ML370 server, designed for versatile rack and tower deployments is the ideal server for data center and remote site environments. Its performance, availability, and scalability deliver unsurpassed investment protection. Like the ProLiant DL380 server, the ProLiant ML370 server offers the ultimate performance in a 2-way server, and has a rich high availability feature set including hot-plug redundant disk drives, and power supplies.

Advanced Memory Protection provides increased fault tolerance for applications requiring higher levels of availability: Online Spare Memory, Hot Plug Mirrored Memory, and Hot Plug RAID Memory. All three levels maintain server availability and memory reliability without service intervention.

Engineered for ultimate flexibility, the ProLiant ML370 server offers customers multiple configuration options to provide maximum investment protection in transitioning to future technologies.

Featuring Highly Parallel System Architecture, 128 MB of 133 MHz SDRAM, 64-bit/66 MHz PCI, and the 1-GHz Pentium III Xeon processors, the world’s fastest two-way server combines maximum performance with ultimate expansion and manageability features. It ships with memory expandable to 4 GB and dual processing support, ensuring expandability to the highest level of investment protection. The ProLiant ML530, the evolution of the ProLiant 3000, features 16 bays, including 12 hot-plug hard drive bays, as well as eight PCI slots. The PCI slots include two 64-bit/66 MHz, five 64-bit/33 MHz, and one 32-bit/33 MHz.

The internal hot pluggable storage capacity of 436.8 GB offers plenty of room for expansion. The ProLiant ML530 ships with support for redundant hot-plug fans, redundant hot-plug power supplies, and redundant NICs. Advanced Memory Protection provides increased fault tolerance for applications requiring higher levels of availability: Online Spare Memory, Hot Plug Mirrored Memory, and Hot Plug RAID Memory. All three levels maintain server availability and memory reliability without service intervention.

This server features the NC3123 Fast Ethernet PCI 10/100 WOL NIC and an integrated dualchannel Wide Ultra2 SCSI Adapter. With exceptional two-way performance, expansion, and manageability features, the ProLiant ML350 is the perfect solution for critical file/print, database, and complex Web applications.

The Compaq ProLiant ML330 delivers leading file/print and Internet technology for small and medium businesses with the storage capacity you need to grow. The ProLiant ML330 is the next generation of the Prosignia Server 720 and ProLiant 400.

The ProLiant ML330 offers the latest Intel Pentium III 1-GHz processing technology, leading I/O architecture including 64-bit PCI, PC133 MHz ECC registered SDRAM memory and 133 MHz front-side bus, as well as an integrated single-channel Wide Ultra2 SCSI controller. The four DIMM sockets provide a maximum memory capacity of up to 2 GB. With two 64-bit PCI slots and three available 32-bit PCI slots, this server provides expandability options and industryleading technology to serve your future needs.

The ProLiant ML330 supports 10,000 rpm 36 GB one-inch non-hot plug drives for a total internal storage capacity of 180 GB using two hard drive bays and three available removable media bays. It ships with an embedded Compaq NC3163 Fast Ethernet PCI 10/100 WOL NIC. This server provides an excellent platform for file/print, remote access, email, Internet communication, firewall, or small database applications.

The ProLiant DL580 builds upon the tradition of product excellence found in the ProLiant 6400R. It features the latest generation of Intel microprocessors, ServerWorks Enterprise ServerSet HE chipset and up to 16 GB of ECC SDRAM memory (512 MB standard). This server supports up to four Pentium III Xeon processors at 700 MHz with 1M or 2M L2 cache standard to provide the processing power and scalability needed by your growing data center requirements.

High availability components include an Integrated Smart Array Controller for RAID data protection and advanced ECC memory algorithms that protect your data even if an entire SDRAM component on a DIMM becomes nonfunctional. The ProLiant DL580 provides 6 PCI slots, 4 of which are hot pluggable, and two of the hot pluggable slots run at 66 MHz for increased bandwidth and faster network connections.

The ProLiant DL580 ships standard with the Compaq NC3134 DualPort 10/100 NIC (slot-based), 64-bit/66 MHz, upgradable to Gigabit, with redundant NIC support. The Wide Ultra2/Wide Ultra3-ready drive cages support four 1-inch Wide Ultra2/Wide Ultra3 SCSI hard drives for up to 145.6 GB of internal storage. Hot-plug redundant fans and an optional hot-plug redundant power supply provide protection in the case of component failure and allow replacement without bringing down the server.

The ProLiant DL580 provides maximum 4-way performance and the highest levels of availability and serviceability in a 4U-form factor making it an ideal platform for the corporate data center or Internet service provider environment.

The Compaq ProLiant ML570, an all-inclusive server/storage solution for enterprise users, boasts a 7U form factor optimized for internal expansion up to twelve 1.0-inch SCSI disk drives and expandable to 16 GB of SDRAM memory. Available in either tower or rack models, 700MHz, 1M or 2M cache or 900MHz 2M cache, the ProLiant ML570 chassis design and slide-out electronics tray provide easy access to the system internals for tool-free replacement of parts.

Powered by the Compaq Highly Parallel System Architecture and using the ServerWorks Enterprise ServerSet III HE chipset and up to four Intel Pentium III Xeon processors, this server maximizes performance and output. Five 64-bit I/O slots, including two running at 66 MHz, provide increased bandwidth and faster network connections. High availability features include hot-plug redundant fans, power supplies, NICs, and drives in addition to memory error correcting technology built into the chipset.

The ProLiant ML570 ships with a Compaq NC3123 Fast Ethernet PCI 10/100 WOL NIC and an integrated dual-channel Wide Ultra2/Wide Ultra3 ready SCSI Adapter. The ProLiant ML570 supplies the performance, scalability, availability, manageability, and design features needed by large business and enterprise customers, application service providers (ASPs), and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with business-critical and e-Commerce applications.

The ProLiant ML570 has continued to excel in price/performance TPC-C benchmarks. Most recently, it generated a TPC-C rating of 37,100 tpmc with a price/performance of $6.36 ($/tpmc) using 4x 900MHz Xeon CPUs.

The most powerful server in the C-Series, intended for enterprise networks and large ISPs, the TaskSmart C2500 manages up to 2400 requests per second in client acceleration mode. In server acceleration mode, it can handle up to 15,000 requests per second.

This server included disk cloning as well as disk mirroring and contains a redundant hot pluggable power supply. It shipped with an 866 MHz processor, 4 GB memory, twenty 9.1 GB hard drives including external storage, two 1 GB Ethernet ports, and one 10/100 Ethernet port. This model was the winner of the second Cache Bakeoff.

The Compaq TaskSmart N2400, a high-performance NAS storage appliance, delivers breakthrough economics and seamless integration of industry-standard technology. Enterprise business can now deploy and manage advanced file storage easily. The TaskSmart N2400, scalable from 72 GB to 10 TB, included all software and hardware needed for high-performance file serving and storage consolidation in an integrated, optimized, and tuned package.

The ultra-thin, robust, and affordable ProLiant DL320 provides the unique and innovative features of the Compaq DL line to emerging Internet companies. It includes a 1.13 GHz processor, in addition to the 1 GHz and 800 MHz processor with 128 MB of RAM standard (expandable to 2 GB of RAM). It includes two embedded Compaq NC3163 Fast Ethernet PCI 10/100 WOL NICs, an integrated storage controller, and a total internal storage capacity up to 40 GB.

Its 1U form factor allows rapid deployment in a variety of racking environments and its superior cable management accommodates ultra-dense deployments. Tool-free entry and easy access to  critical components simplify maintenance and upgrades. The CD-ROM/diskette drive assembly is removable for greater security.

The ProLiant DL320 provides a low-cost, ultra-dense solution for local service providers and dotcoms that prefer a trusted brand with full 24 x 7 support. Other environments include the frontend servers for Web hosting, video streaming, and media applications. Corporate solutions include domain controllers, gateways, DNS servers, Web applications, firewall servers, and development testing.

The Compaq ProLiant ML330e server manages your network environment, supporting basic file/print, small databases, email/Internet gateways, firewall, and more. It offers the confidence and reliability you expect from the ProLiant family of servers. Built with latest Intel Pentium III technology, the ProLiant ML330e offers small businesses the power to compete in the Internet economy today and the bandwidth to support their growing business needs.

The ProLiant ML330e combines product excellence and industry defining technology simplifying the customer experience with intelligent manageability features that proactively manage your network environment, software integration, and service and support all at a very affordable price.

Today's mission-critical applications demand ever-increasing scalability and availability from data center servers. The ProLiant DL760, with the Intel Pentium III Xeon 700 MHz or 900 MHz processors and PCI-X I/O, delivers the performance and uptime required to meet the current and future demands of enterprise server consolidation, e-business, ERP, thin client, compute engine, mail and messaging, and data mining applications. Based on the Profusion architecture jointly developed by Compaq, Corollary and Intel, the ProLiant DL760 offers excellent scalability driven by its balanced system architecture.

This server was designed for mission-critical environments and offers an outstanding combination of high performance and high availability features, with eight processors, 16 GB of SDRAM, eleven hot-pluggable 64-bit I/O slots including 8 PCI-X, redundant hot plug power supplies and fans and more.

The ProLiant DL760 has been developed to meet the needs of customers requiring scalability and fault tolerance in a data center environment. With the latest performance, reliability, manageability and serviceability features in a modular, dense 7U form factor design, this server provides an ideal solution for demanding enterprise applications. PCI-X is the next evolution of the PCI I/O standard that runs at speeds up to 133 MHz, providing burst transfer rates above 1GB/s. It is backward compatible with PCI. Customers can install their existing PCI adapters in the ProLiant DL760 while investing in PCI-X adapters.

Beginning December 2001, the ProLiant DL760 and all options are available for certification for customers who require robust performance and stability from a Data Center Solution. Standard ProLiant DL760 models may be used in conjunction with the Data Center Installation and Startup service to install Windows 2000 Datacenter.

Today's mission-critical applications demand ever-increasing scalability and availability from data center servers. The ProLiant ML750, with The ProLiant DL760, with Intel Pentium III Xeon 700 MHz or 900 MHz processors, delivers the performance and uptime required to meet the current and future demands of enterprise server consolidation, e-business, ERP, thin client and data mining applications. Based on the Profusion architecture jointly developed by Compaq, Corollary, and Intel, the ProLiant ML750 offers excellent scalability driven by its balanced system architecture.

This server was designed for mission-critical environments and offers an outstanding combination of high performance and high availability features, with eight processors, 16GB of SDRAM, eleven PCI slots, next generation PCI Hot Plug, redundant hot plug power supplies and fans and more. The ProLiant ML750 has been developed to meet the needs of customers requiring unprecedented scalability and fault tolerance with large internal storage configurations, providing capacity for 21 internal 1" Wide Ultra2/3 SCSI drives accessible through redundant array controllers. With the latest performance, reliability, manageability and serviceability

Compaq ProLiant servers, server options and StorageWorks storage platforms are the modular components customers use to build their unique IT environment. Based on industry standards and powered by industry-defining technologies, these building blocks enable customers to create adaptive infrastructures, scalable to their unique requirements. Compaq ProLiant BL e-Class systems are specifically designed for adaptive computing and optimized for rapid deployment and automated provisioning.

Compaq ProLiant BL e-Class systems are the first power-efficient, ultra-dense front-end server blades engineered to address the needs of space-constrained enterprises and service providers. Integrated Lights-Out is introduced as a key part of the adaptive infrastructure to provide anytime, anywhere management through virtual presence and control.

In this year, Compaq Computer was sold and merged into the Hewlet & Packard organisation.