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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]
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 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]
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]
Implementing Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and Windows 2000/2003 Boot From IBM DS4000 SAN With Blade Servers
White Papers This paper illustrates the detailed configuration procedure necessary to implementing Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and Windows 2000/2003 operating systems with IBM blade servers attached to the IBM DS4000 storage subsystem in a Boot from San...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
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]
Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers
White Papers Blade servers operate at power densities that exceed the power and cooling capacities of virtually all data centers. Installing blade servers in an existing data center creates a bewildering set of challenges and options.
[October 1, 2009, 9:30]
26-Port 10GbE Switch Advantages in Blade Servers
White Papers Because today's multicore processors utilize the 8- to 10-Gbps PCI Express I/O bus, blade servers can easily benefit from the throughput provided by 10-Gbps Ethernet (10GbE). With multicore processors and virtualization pushing blade-server...
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
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]
VMware Virtualization Software on Dell Blade Servers
White Papers Dell blade servers together with VMware virtualization software can help meet the scalability requirements of today's data centers. This paper discusses how Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers and VMware ESX Server virtualization software can...
[June 18, 2009, 14:31]
Deployment of VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to provide best practices for deploying VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers. This paper describes various configurations that are possible when installing VMware ESX 2.5 Server Software on...
[May 11, 2005, 3:00]
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]
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]
Digital-Image Processing Firm Enjoys Advantages in Productivity and Competitiveness With Intel Blade Servers
White Papers PICTORION das werk deployed two Intel Blade Servers with 14 blades and one Intel Blade Server with 2 blades, and replaced half of its client workstations with systems based on the Intel Xeon and Intel Pentium processors.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
Why Blade Servers Rule in the Arizona Supreme Court
White Papers Download this case study to learn why the court chose HP ProLiant Blade Servers and virtualization software to run its complex and innovative custom applications. Although the Arizona Supreme Court was an early adopter of court automation tools, it...
[December 20, 2005, 10:58]
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]
Fairleigh Dickinson University Centralizes Storage and Backup, Improves Disaster Recovery and Email With HP Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays and ProLiant Blade Servers
White Papers It turned to HP to solve its problems, and chose Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays; award-winning Hewlett-Packard ProLiant blade servers; and Hewlett Packard MSL6060 tape libraries.
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Blade servers: The fine print matters
Talkback If you had really done your homework you would have been able to describe the egenera Bladeframe platform as the truly different "blade solution" - the only one that brings utility computing and datacenter virtualization to the masses, while...
[June 27, 2004, 13:14]
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]
