Katana^® 2000 is based on open-standards AdvancedTCA^® (ATCA^®) technology to provide commercial IT applications with improved serviceability, power and space efficiency over typical rack mount server-based solutions. The low-profile system can be supplied with one or two high performance server blades, each featuring two of the latest quad-core Intel^® Xeon^® processor 5500 series devices with up to 48GB DDR3 memory and two individually hot-swappable mass storage units.

By basing the server on ATCA technology, Emerson also enables you to reuse existing ATCA server blade hardware and software providing a significant reduction in development cost and reducing time-to-market for new systems. The open standards-based architecture gives you freedom of choice and doesn't lock you into any particular vendor.

Optionally, pre-integrated software including Emerson's SpiderWare^®M³ graphical system management application and Red Hat Enterprise Linux can deliver a smooth out-of-the-box experience.

Emerson intends to certify Katana 2000 with EMC CLARiiON CX4 and AX4 storage equipment to enable you to easily extend your application with external mass storage solutions.