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Blade PCs: the ultimate managed desktops review
Reviews HP does not offer a simple ‘port’-type option to minimise complexity on the desktop, so HP blade PCs must be used with thin clients or ordinary desktop PCs. HP reckons a typical Blade Workstation deployment would cost about $4,000 (~£2,000) per...
[July 3, 2007, 11:44]
Blade PCs approach mass-market pricing
News Blade PCs have been available from ClearCube for several years. 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.
[October 2, 2006, 18:15]
US air defenders choose Blade PCs
News The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, is nearly finished converting from using standard desktop PCs to blade PCs from ClearCube Technology in its Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (CMAFS), said Garland Garcia, network chief at...
[April 18, 2005, 8:55]
IBM aims blades at Japan
News With blade PCs, only a keyboard, monitor and network connector sit on the user's desk. IBM will sell blade PC systems from ClearCube Technology to customers in Japan, a deal that is likely to help build interest in the relatively new market.
[February 25, 2004, 10:05]
HP sharpens blade PC lines
News HP introduced a new line of blade PCs on Monday, and this time including a processor that corporate customers are more willing to buy. Last year, HP released its first blade PCs, which included processors from Transmeta.
[November 8, 2005, 8:15]
Blade software cuts desktop hassles
News Workstation start-up ClearCube has come out with two new applications that bring some of the advantages of blade computing to ordinary PCs. The company claims its blade systems can pay for themselves in nine months to a year due to reduced IT...
[March 17, 2003, 14:33]
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]
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]
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. At the event in New York, HP unveiled a number of business products, including small form-factor PCs, business laptops...
[September 6, 2007, 15:11]
Blade desktops make bankers cool
News HP's ProLiant Blade Workstation package — which is targeted mainly at financial institutions — combines thin-client PCs and ProLiant XW25p workstation blades. Speaking at a launch to promotes HP's ProLiant Blade Workstation package on Wednesday...
[December 1, 2006, 14:28]
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. A blade system for PCs "is a very interesting concept. Sources close to the company, however, said HP is designing a...
[May 6, 2003, 9:10]
Start-up brings 'blades' to the desktop
News But blade workstations would be full-fledged PCs, though theoretically as easy to maintain as thin clients. ClearCube says that blade desktops also improve security and overall system utilisation. The contemporary twist involves "blade"-style...
[September 23, 2002, 8:27]
IBM set to launch PC by the back door
News IBM's BladeCenter houses as many as 14 dual-processor servers in a chassis 12.25 inches tall, and Doug Balog, IBM's new vice president of BladeCenter products, said 12 to 15 separate PCs can simultaneously run on each blade.
[October 19, 2005, 10:15]
Lindows reawakens network computer
News Hewlett-Packard, for one, is working on a so-called blade PC, which it says will help companies save money by centrally managing PCs. Start-up ClearCube also manufactures a blade PC. HP has said it would offer the blade PC to large companies that...
[July 23, 2003, 8:15]
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]
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]
HP reveals its latest blade
News The new blade PCs can be used, in conjunction with the company's thin clients, to replace the networked desktop PCs that most companies now issue their employees, HP says. The HP thin clients and blade PCs allow workers to log in, access files and...
[April 27, 2004, 9:40]
ClearCube Technology Case Study: American Automobile Club (Kentucky)
White Papers ClearCube takes traditional computing components and transforms them into a highly dense, rack-mounted blade computer. AAA Kentucky faced problems associated with its existing desktop PC environment, including users dislodging cables from CPUs...
[September 6, 2007, 1:00]
IBM, screensaver to tackle smallpox
News Grid" is now used to describe a range of systems, from loosely connected groups of thousands or millions of PCs to a collection of blade servers in a single chassis. The project will take the form of a screensaver people can put on their PCs, in a...
[February 5, 2003, 8:21]
Standard blades cut both ways
Leader Nobody doubts that a true standard would grow that market substantially, if you could mix and match blade servers as easily as you can mingle PCs, software and expansion cards from different makers. Summer is over when the football starts, the...
[September 2, 2004, 11:55]
