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HP offers the industry's broadest portfolio of blade servers and technologies optimized to address customers' needs. The new ProLiant BL20p G3 is a performance dual-processor server blade engineered for the enterprise. The ProLiant BL20p G3 delivers high performance Intel 3.6GHz/800MHz Xeon processors available with 2M L2 cache, SAN storage capability, up to 8GB of PC 3200 DDR2 memory and four gigabit NICs standard. The new ProLiant BL20p G3 shares the same infrastructure components as the BL20pG2, BL30p, and BL40p (Note: Some models may require the BL p-class server blade enclosure with enhanced backplane components). The ProLiant BL20p G3 delivers optional Fibre Channel support for SAN implementations and clustering capabilities. Through the implementation of a SAN with the ProLiant BL20p G3, customers can achieve improved data availability, easily scale capacity, and realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources. In addition, with HP's fusion of SAN and NAS (Network Attached Storage), customers can design a storage architecture that incorporates application, database and file serving solution functionality. Fibre Channel capability is achieved using a Dual Port Fibre Channel Mezzanine Card (2-Gb) specifically designed for the ProLiant BL20p G3. The ProLiant BL20p G3 is optimized for HP StorageWorks and compatible with third party storage vendors.