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Accelerate to a Real Time Infrastructure

Building a Real Time Infrastructure is a process. It’s a journey toward the place that you really want to be. Moving toward a Real Time Infrastructure – and accelerating the pace – doesn’t mean throwing away what you have and starting again from scratch. It begins by looking at where you are today and takes your legacy systems to places you never dreamed of before. You can leverage the investments you’ve made in your Unisys ClearPath applications to create a Real Time Infrastructure delivering true IT agility.

The secure, robust, and agile ClearPath Libra Servers are the ideal platforms for our existing ClearPath MCP clients building a Real Time Infrastructure. They are also the ideal platforms for business-critical solution developers and independent software vendors.

ClearPath Libra Servers are the very best deployment engines in the industry for Java and Java EE applications. They offer both the utmost security and highest service levels for those who want to run Java-based, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications, but are not comfortable deploying their core business systems on UNIX, Windows, or Linux. 

Unisys continues to increase the agility of its Libra Servers in a variety of ways. Diverse computing workloads. Flexible buying models. Popular software standards. Secure Java environments. Industry-standard tools, applications and skill sets. Automated processes and operations. Policy-based resource management. Service Oriented Architecture-based business connectivity. And 3D Blueprinting-based business responsiveness. All to give you the agility you need to rapidly accommodate marketplace changes. And deliver results you can measure in terms of real economic impact.

ClearPath MCP Servers, the World's Most Versatile Servers

ClearPath MCP Servers can help you achieve the highest levels of business agility because they are the world's most versatile systems. They enable you to create flexible, composite applications and systems that are tightly aligned with your critical business processes – and stay aligned by changing as fast as you need them to.

Entry to Mid-range MCP systems: Libra Model 400 Server

Libra Model 400 Servers are fully featured, entry and mid-range mainframe systems for MCP environments. These new servers are based on the ClearPath Next-Generation Server Architecture and feature quad-core Intel processors running both MCP and Windows operating systems. These systems deliver all of the traditional mainframe attributes, a wealth of valuable business characteristics, and a flexible modular design.
 
Object-code compatible with all members of the MCP family of products, Libra Model 400 Servers provide both the high speed and high reliability of a ClearPath online transaction processing environment. Libra Model 400 Servers support a high level of infrastructure flexibility for evolving to an agile Real-Time Infrastructure. You have a choice of hardware technologies, operating environments, applications, growth options, integration software and flexible software licensing models. The overall design maximizes the return on your current IT investment and gives you the agility to quickly and effectively respond to new challenges and business opportunities.
 
Libra Model 400 Server hardware is competitive with open server pricing.  These open mainframe servers are for organizations with core business solutions that demand uncompromised transaction integrity, impenetrable security, and uninterrupted transaction processing for the broadest range of computing environments.

Libra Model 400 Server highlights

• Utilize Intel® quad-core processors
• New hardware with high-availability features
• High-performance interoperability
• Performance Redistribution
• Capacity on Demand
• Flexible software licensing options
• Java EE run-time environment

Mid-range MCP systems:  Libra 4000 Server

The Libra 4000 Server is a single partition, mid-range ClearPath server that uses the x64 architecture and is based on Intel XEONTM processors. It executes MCP applications and provides levels of performance associated with traditional Unisys CMOS-based Libra servers. This platform delivers mission-critical performance for our most demanding clients. This level of performance is achieved through the integrated hardware and MCP software architectures and investments delivering constant product enhancements over a number of years. Depending on the configuration, the server provides a multi-processor performance level of 600 MIPs (800 MIPs in a metered environment) with a single image performance level of 200 MIPs.

The Libra 4000 Server maintains the traditional high level of security built into ClearPath MCP systems. The overall system design ensures enterprise levels of reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) and provides a flexible, cost-effective solution to respond to business challenges and opportunities. The server supports an extensive MCP software portfolio with true mainframe attributes. You can choose from among four different operating environment packages, each of which is designed to support a different type of processing workload.

Libra 4000 Server highlights:

• First-time Unisys innovative metering technology that is available on MCP-based Next Generation architecture
• High-availability models: Warm-standby MCP cell performs a Halt/Load for failover and recovery and becomes the active MCP cell. This capability will be available 1Q '09.
• 200 MIPs single-threaded performance
• Powerful SOA capabilities to allow existing MCP applications to participate in SOA or to build new SOA services
• New Java appliance processor and a full set of Java connectors allowing Java applications to access DMS II

The ClearPath Libra 600 Series

ClearPath Libra 600 Series servers offer you new levels of agility that deliver these key benefits:

• A secure real-time server infrastructure you can easily upgrade to maximize your IT investment and minimize your incremental expenses
• The ability to quickly and cost effectively adapt your infrastructure to support adjustments to your business strategy
• Greater agility through the many new capabilities and characteristics
  • Enhanced versatility through Pay-for-Use business models and metering technology
  • More flexible buying models to meet your fast-changing business needs
  • The richest and most robust and secure environment for your business-critical Java EE applications
  • The extension of Libra applications to new channels, partners and markets with the AUTOMATIC development, deployment and management of middleware for Web, mobile and Web services
  • The ability to process diverse computing workloads using multiple operating environments and hardware technologies
  • Integration with any data source, application and device using industry-standard middleware solutions
  • Autonomic systems management
  • Economics focused on improving your business agility and your end users’ productivity to increase your top-line revenue – not only reduce your operational costs
  • An MCP native application server and the open source, J2EE-compliant JBoss Application Server - supported worldwide by Unisys

What's more, we're always further developing these traditional mainframe attributes that provide core functional and economic superiority:

All of these new and traditional mainframe attributes are key to the design of every aspect of ClearPath MCP servers: the architecture, hardware, system software, middleware, system management and operations. The results? Proven, ultra-high-volume, business-critical transaction processing to drive your business forward.