Unisys Server Improves Price/Performance 46 Percent in Record TPC-E Benchmark Performance

Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) today announced that the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R Enterprise Server has set records for price/performance and performance by an 8-socket system in the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) TPC-E benchmark.

The TPC-E benchmark measures the online transaction processing (OLTP) performance of servers in a rigorous enterprise data center environment. This result reinforces the price/performance leadership of the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R among servers with more than four sockets.

In the benchmark test, the ES7000 Model 7600R server delivered 46 percent better price/performance and 45 percent better performance than the previous 8-socket leader, with a 22 percent lower total cost of ownership.(1) The Unisys server achieved 1165.56 tpsE with a best-in-class economic analysis of $783.56 per tpsE. Performance in the benchmark test is measured as transactions per second for the E benchmark (tpsE), while economic efficiency is shown as dollars per tpsE ($/tpsE) calculated as three-year cost of ownership divided by tpsE.

“The Unisys server’s performance in this premier benchmark test shows that the 8-socket ES7000 Model 7600R is ideal for organizations needing to get more return from their investments in today’s ‘less is more’ economic climate,” said Colin Lacey, vice president, Systems and Storage, Unisys Systems and Technology. “The ES7000 Model 7600R is ideal not just for large-scale enterprises, but also for mid-sized organizations that don’t require the full 16-socket capability but need the capacity to scale up their server resources to meet business-transaction requirements at lower cost.”

The ES7000 Model 7600R in the benchmark testing used eight 6-core Intel Xeon processors 7400 Series, for a total of 48 processor cores. The configuration ran the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (x64) operating environment, using a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition database server.

“The results that the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R has achieved in the TPC-E benchmark show how an advanced server architecture running the Microsoft Windows Server environment can help enterprise clients realize operational and economic value,” said Jim Fredricksen, senior director, Microsoft OEM Server Sales at Microsoft Corp. “With servers such as the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R, customers are able to take advantage of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and Windows Server Datacenter to easily scale to adapt to the increased needs for data warehousing, transaction processing, e-mail capacity, and similar business-critical workloads while increasing performance and decreasing costs of operating their data centers.”

For a full view of the benchmark results, click on the following link: http://www.tpc.org/tpce/results/tpce_perf_results.asp

For more information on the ES7000 Model 7600R Enterprise Server, click on the following link: http://www.unisys.com/products/enterprise__servers/high_d_end__servers/models/index.htm

About the TPC

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. The TPC was established in August 1988 by eight leading software and hardware companies. The TPC currently has 25 full members: AMD, Bull, Dell, Fujitsu, Fusion IO, Greenplum, HP, Hitachi, IBM, INGRES, Intel, Kickfire, Microsoft, NEC, Netezza, Oracle, ParAccel, Sun, Sybase, Syncsort, Teradata, Unisys, Vertica, VMware and Xsprada; and three associate members: Ideas International, ITOM International Co and TTA.

Benchmark results and further information can be accessed via the TPC home page at www.tpc.org.

About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide information technology company. We provide a portfolio of IT services, software, and technology that solves critical problems for clients. We specialize in helping clients secure their operations, increase the efficiency and utilization of their data centers, enhance support to their end users and constituents, and modernize their enterprise applications. To provide these services and solutions, we bring together offerings and capabilities in outsourcing services, systems integration and consulting services, infrastructure services, maintenance services, and high-end server technology. With more than 28,000 employees, Unisys serves commercial organizations and government agencies throughout the world. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

1Note to Editors: As reported by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), the Unisys ES7000 Model 7600R server was configured with eight 6-core Intel Model X7460 processors, with a total of 48 cores and 48 execution threads, available now. The Unisys server ran Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition. The IBM System x3950 M2 with eight 4-core Intel Model X7350 processors for a total of 32 cores and 32 execution threads (availability August 30, 2008), also running Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition, achieved 804 tpsE at $1,450.05/tpsE.

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