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Blade servers held back by cooling, says IDC
News Blade servers are unlikely to be deployed widely across European enterprises before the middle of 2007 when systems management, cooling and power issues should have been resolved, according to research from IDC.
[June 14, 2005, 16:55]
Hitachi launches new-generation blade servers
News Hitachi plans to launch on Tuesday a new generation of BladeSymphony blade servers, which can be linked into larger multiprocessor systems or subdivided through virtualisation. The system accommodates up to 128GB of memory, but has no built-in hard...
[November 28, 2006, 8:25]
Sun blade servers to use AMD chips
News Sun will use the laptop version of Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon XP processor in its slim "blade" servers coming later this year, the company said on Monday. Blade servers are smaller systems that are fitted side-by-side within a single chassis...
[February 25, 2003, 9:07]
IBM releases Opteron blade servers
News IBM has begun selling blade servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, the second server model with the chip in a product line that places more emphasis on rival processors from Intel. The blade server market is growing faster than...
[June 16, 2005, 15:35]
Sun's blade servers coming this year
News Sun Microsystems, trailing some competitors to the market with super-thin "blade" servers, will begin to catch up when it releases its products in the second half of the year. Dell will release its blade servers in mid-2002, said Joe Sekel, a...
[February 27, 2002, 13:45]
Compaq blade servers slice a chip off HP block
News Compaq launched its blade servers on Monday. Blade servers are designed to make life easier for service providers who were expecting to support exponentially increasing levels of business in centralised facilities.
[January 28, 2002, 11:09]
HP debuts 'blade' servers
News Blade servers are leading several trends in the industry. Research firm IDC expects blade servers will blossom in an otherwise grim server market. About two million blade servers will ship in 2005 with revenue of about $2.9bn.
[December 4, 2001, 11:50]
Dell unveils blade servers for virtualisation
News Dell has introduced two new blade servers, the PowerEdge M905 and M805, geared for virtualisation performance. The company said it had achieved the number-one blade-server position in VMmark testing with its full-height, four-socket M905 PowerEdge...
[September 11, 2008, 17:50]
Sun goes big with blade servers
News After seeing its first efforts in the booming blade market come to naught, Sun has announced a new high-end blade system and launched two new hybrid server/storage systems, all based on AMD Opteron 64bit processors.
[July 11, 2006, 13:05]
HP hones blade servers
News Blade servers slide side-by-side into a chassis like books into a bookshelf. Ultimately, many expect blade servers to take over much of the market for today's stand-alone servers. Blade servers today are bolted into racks, but they aren't suited...
[March 8, 2004, 7:50]
Can blade servers save you money?
News In the past five years, few new technologies have impacted server rooms and data centres more profoundly than the arrival of blade servers. Of course, blades also have their drawbacks and there are some tasks that are not well-suited to blade servers.
[November 10, 2004, 10:33]
CO2 used to cool blade servers
News The cooling system is mainly targeted at "high compaction cooling, particularly.blade servers where equipment loads may be in excess of 20kW per cabinet". The problem of heat and heat dissipation has become intense, Tobin added - especially when...
[February 2, 2006, 12:35]
CIOs unconvinced about blades
News Chief information officers are still adopting a 'wait and see' attitude to blade servers, with many reluctant to face the cost of integrating blades into their existing systems, a new study reveals. Integrating into the existing business structure...
[February 16, 2005, 13:05]
IBM plans 2003 muscle servers
News The company is poised to release its first "blade" servers and 16-processor Intel-based systems in coming weeks. Among the parade of Intel server products scheduled for next year are a system with 32 Xeon chips, skinny "blade" servers with four...
[November 28, 2002, 7:40]
IBM releases small-scale blade solutions
News IBM is expected to announce on Wednesday a new networking switch for its blade servers and a new service for small-business customers thinking about deploying blade servers. Blade servers are still a small portion of the overall server shipments...
[May 10, 2006, 12:05]
Sun extends blade lineup
News In all, Sun came out with three new blade servers — its first blade servers that can utilise modern Intel Xeon processors, a blade for the UltraSparc TI "Niagara" processor, and a blade for AMD's Opteron processors — as well as a smaller blade...
[June 7, 2007, 9:42]
Fujitsu readies eight-way blade server
News Fujitsu will begin selling technology next quarter that lets four dual-processor blade servers be linked into a single machine with eight AMD Opteron chips. Blade servers fit inside a single chassis that provides power and a communications...
[March 14, 2006, 9:00]
HP delivers Istanbul-powered servers
News On Wednesday, the company introduced four rack servers (ProLiant DL785, DL585, DL385 and DL165) and three blade servers (ProLiant BL465, BL495c and BL685c) powered by the Opteron processors. This technology was previously only available in HP's...
[June 3, 2009, 16:37]
Sun's second blade delayed
News Blade servers, systems that slide into a single chassis like books into a bookshelf, figure prominently in plans from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer and Intel. When Sun announced its blade servers in February, it said the Intel processor...
[July 14, 2003, 12:11]
IBM launches Linux-based blade cluster
News IBM is combining two popular concepts in computing -- Linux clusters and blade servers -- into a standard system for businesses and research institutions. The computing giant plans to announce on Wednesday the IBM eServer Cluster 1350 -- its first...
[May 21, 2003, 8:26]
