The new products
We then moved onto the new stuff. Not only is Acer launching a range of servers, it's also getting into storage in partnership with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).
Michael Vath, SVP and EMEA GM of HDS, called it "A market changing partnership", and went on to explain that the partnership also provides access to the SMB market for HDS, which traditionally plays primarily in the enterprise sector.
We were then introduced to Gianluca Degliesposti, the Acer server boss, who had previously been a senior member of the Opteron server processor team at AMD.
He listed the server product categories being launched, as shown in the slides below. Degliesposti explained that Acer's current server range would be phased out by the middle of 2010.
