4 

2000

system based on Windows 2000 technologies for Web hosting and serving. One month later, 

IBM 

debuts new Netfinity thin servers designed to deliver the highest computing power per 

square foot on Intel based platforms. With the new offerings, known as the 4500R and 6000R, 

IBM

 now provides the industry's most complete rack optimized server product line for Linux, 

Windows and Novell operating systems.  

IBM

 announces the world's most powerful Intel based server, the 64 processor 

NUMA

 Q E410, 

along with the industry's most affordable technology leading two way server, the Netfinity 3500 

M20.  

IBM

 says in March that the 

US

. Commerce Department has approved the sale of a special series 

of secure IBM PC 300PL and IntelliStation PCs with 256 bit digital key decryption and 

management capabilities to businesses, organizations, governments and people around the world. 

The following month the new low cost desktop IBM PC 300, the company's smallest, is 

introduced.  

In 

IBM

's most dramatic and significant rollout of desktop technology since the Personal 

Computer of 1981, the company announces in March the NetVista brand of new personal 

computing devices, including next stage PCs, Internet access devices and thin clients. Among 

the products introduced are the NetVista All in One high performance device, NetVista Legacy 

Free 

PC

, NetVista Internet Appliance, and NetVista Zero Footprint Thin Client. Two months 

later, 

IBM

 announces the All in One NetVista X40 and S40 which extend the classic ThinkPad 

design to the desktop. The company broadens its NetVista family of desktop business computers 

in June with the A20, A40 and A40p models. It launches the NetVista A20i, A20m, A40i, A20 

and A40 systems to round out the NetVista brand of desktop computer devices in September, and 

announces the NetVista A60i desktop computer in November. 

IBM

 announces the ThinkPad X series, the ultraportable full featured notebook computer 

slimmer then a deck of cards and lighter than a half gallon of milk.  

In October, 

IBM

 introduces the eServer xSeries 330, the industry's first 1 Ghz thin server and the 

first web application server in the 

IBM

 eServer family. A few days later, it launches a new line of 

eServer appliances, including the xSeries 130 and 135, two speedy web hosting appliance 

servers; xSeries 150, a storage appliance with scalability up to 1.7TB; iSeries 400 model 270 and 

model 820, two Lotus Domino server appliances. And in November, the company announces the 

eServer x200 and x220, two servers designed for small and medium businesses.  

IBM

 ships 73 percent more terabytes of storage than in 1999, increasing shipped disk storage to 

more than 11,000 terabytes in 12 months. Combined, all 

IBM

  Shark  enterprise storage servers 

worldwide hold more than seven petabytes of data, roughly equal to the printed text of 700 U.S. 

Libraries of Congress.  

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