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Blade desktops need sharper competition
Leader Blade desktops are one of those technologies that, like heads-up displays for PDAs and fuel cells for laptops, are occasionally glimpsed but never seem to reach their full potential. ClearCube, the company that arguably created the blade desktop...
[December 4, 2006, 17:27]
Blade desktops make bankers cool
News Deploying the blade desktops effectively meant taking all the processing power from under the traders' desks and putting it into the company's data centre. Speaking at a launch to promotes HP's ProLiant Blade Workstation package on Wednesday, Tom...
[December 1, 2006, 14:28]
IBM mulls blade desktops
News IBM is considering extending its blade server line with the addition of blade desktops - taking a PC's processor, drive and memory off the desktop and moving them onto cards in server-room chassis where they can be more easily managed.
[September 22, 2004, 12:40]
Blade PCs: the ultimate managed desktops review
Reviews Last year HP began offering blade desktops along similar lines to ClearCube's products. The company also launched its Workstation Blade in May, and for a year or so has been offering blade servers configured with Citrix Presentation Server or...
[July 3, 2007, 11:44]
Blades cut a dash in dual monitors
News ClearCube Technology, a company adapting space-saving blade server architecture for use with desktop PCs, is coming out with multi-monitor desktops, one of those design trends that just might finally take off.
[March 4, 2002, 10:50]
Start-up brings 'blades' to the desktop
News ClearCube says that blade desktops also improve security and overall system utilisation. Additionally, blade desktops can bring some perks that aren't practical on standard desktops. Like the blade server, a blade workstation of the type ClearCube...
[September 23, 2002, 8:27]
Blade PCs approach mass-market pricing
News With the client OS locked inside a server room, blade PCs offer a number of advantages of standard desktops: relatively easy security and software upgrades, for instance. Blade PC manufacturer ClearCube is releasing a product range that it says is...
[October 2, 2006, 18:15]
HP wants to change desktops into blades
News While these are the target customers for bladed PCs, it is not clear if HP will discuss a blade strategy for desktops at the event. While HP, Dell, IBM and others have been touting bladed servers for more than two years, no multinational company...
[May 6, 2003, 9:10]
Momentum Webcast: Client Virtualization Solutions From Microsoft and HP (Level 100)
White Papers The presenter of this webcast explains why virtual desktops, Blade PCs, Blade Workstations, and Thin Client-based solutions are all experiencing dramatic interest and growth in the industry, along with server virtualization.
[June 26, 2008, 1:01]
Lenovo inks blade desktop deal
News Similar to blade servers, blade desktops are complete desktop PCs, but instead of coming in a chassis, the computers are circuit boards stuffed into a rack in a data centre. Lenovo will resell blade desktop systems from ClearCube Technologies as...
[July 11, 2005, 9:15]
NCP embraces blade technology
News Sentral can also be employed to support virtualised desktops, as well as other vendors' blade systems, although there is no virtualisation at the moment. National Car Parks has opened a national control centre using blade technology and has...
[April 23, 2007, 15:33]
HP Thin Client Solution Delivers Just What the Doctor Ordered
White Papers But rather than simply updating the desktops, North Shore pursued an entirely new strategy: HP Thin Client computing supported by HP blade servers in the data center. North Shore Medical Center is a 300-bed community hospital affiliated with...
[June 12, 2009, 1:20]
Leading French Communications Provider Implements Data Warehouse to Manage Growth
White Papers To run SQL Server 2005, the company decided to install Dell PowerEdge 6850 rack servers and New Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers now run SFD's back office systems. For its 270 stores, SFD selected Dell OptiPlex desktops.
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Intel takes Deerfield downmarket
News Deerfield, which is aimed at blade server and workstation markets, will debut in the third quarter at $744 (£456.50), according to Intel product plans examined by CNET News.com. Currently, Intel serves the blade and workstation market with its Xeon...
[July 10, 2003, 14:59]
Citrix XenDesktop 4 adds features, changes licence
News Power users running high-end applications can be served by blade PCs in the datacentre, too. The new XenDesktop 4, launched on Tuesday, delivers desktops as an on-demand service to any client capable of running Citrix's thin-client code, with a...
[October 8, 2009, 8:56]
Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS
News CSS is designed for non-PC systems such as blade servers and embedded industrial devices as well as traditional desktops. This is a pivotal change for the industry, and it will rapidly advance serviceability, deployment, and management for servers...
[October 3, 2003, 17:25]
HP chooses thin-client key for virtualisation
News HP on Tuesday launched a wide-range of virtualisation products, including new hardware, such as a blade server, and software. The hardware products announced include the new ProLiant BL495c blade server, four new thin-client systems (the HP t5630...
[September 2, 2008, 17:25]
Handling the hardware market
News Editors' note: Marengi is speaking of RLX's selection of Transmeta processors for some of its blade offerings. But if we continue on the current path, we will retard the acceleration of blade growth. HP has its own kind of blade.
[October 31, 2003, 13:50]
HP: Desktop PC not dead, just changing
News Bozzo said innovation would come in virtualised client technologies such as thin clients, blade servers and blade PCs. He pointed to financial services, oil and gas exploration and digital content creation as the most likely markets for blade servers.
[September 6, 2007, 15:11]
HP: We'll invest in PC success
News For the product angle, this will mean the introduction of workstation blade investment. From a purchasing point of view blades cost more, as does the equipment system for the blade enclosure. As the retail prices of desktops and laptops continue to...
[May 15, 2006, 13:15]
