If you’re looking into buying servers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, don’t let a new naming convention throw you off.

HPE’s new Integrity MC990 X is the first in a line of many servers that will conform to a new naming convention to indicate the sort of workloads they tackle. The “MC” stands for “mission critical,” and that moniker will make its way into more mid-range and high-end servers over time.

The eight-socket server is a scale-up rack system crammed with lots of processors and memory to run databases, analytics and other business applications. It supports up to eight 18-core Xeon chips — or 144 processor cores — and 6TB of DDR4 memory.

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