Boston Flexes Its Own ARM Server Muscle
09 July 2012 Source: http://www.calxeda.com
UK IT supplier Boston is not waiting for ARM-powered servers to take off before jumping into the racket - instead it's getting out there on the bleeding edge and will within weeks start shipping the first of its "Viridis" energy-efficient servers.
Viridis is a Latin-ish name that is derived from "green" and is meant to signify the energy efficiency that comes from using ARM processors to do heavy lifting - and presumably the greenbacks from hyperscale data centers and other hosting customers looking for better power efficiency and compactness than is available with x86 iron.