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HP launches first Integrity blade system
News The new system is the first to enable HP to deliver a single blade rack running a mixture of HP-UX, Windows and Linux blades, or with virtualised operating systems, said Malcolm Garstang, UK marketing manager for HP business critical systems.The...
[February 15, 2007, 16:02]
Hitachi launches new-generation blade servers
News The new system, like its predecessor, is a rack-mounted chassis 17.5 inches tall that can accommodate eight dual-processor blades using either Itanium or Xeon chips from Intel. Unlike its predecessor, however, it has significant new hardware...
[November 28, 2006, 8:25]
Sun's blade servers coming this year
News Sun will release two types of blades this year: those using Intel chips and the Linux operating system, and those using Sun's UltraSparc chips and its Solaris operating system, said Colin Fowles, director of Sun's blade business team.
[February 27, 2002, 13:45]
IBM readies Power6 blades for next year
News With the Power6 blades, IBM is likely to follow its current strategy of single-wide dual-processor systems and double-wide four-processor systems, he said. One major change coming with Power6 blades is the ability to run another major operating...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
Servers: Sun's looking for a quick change
News We believe blades are going to run into the same problem" as Windows servers did in the past -- when companies suddenly found themselves with hundreds of the systems scattered across the corporation. But Sun isn't alone in its effort to improve how...
[December 5, 2001, 11:18]
IBM expanding further into Intel's server market
News Today, we have 16-way SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) systems, with virtualised partitions and robust system management tools at one end and highly dense, integrated blades at the other end," Whitney said.
[March 14, 2003, 8:48]
Implementing Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and Windows 2000/2003 Boot From IBM DS4000 SAN With Blade Servers
White Papers The Boot from SAN configuration for the HS20, HS21, LS21, LS41 and HS40 blades is very similar; the only exception is the HS40 blade. This paper illustrates the detailed configuration procedure necessary to implementing Microsoft Cluster Server...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Newcastle Permanent Accelerates Transaction Processing
White Papers The company deployed HP BladeSystem with Integrity and ProLiant server blades and upgraded to HP-UX 11i v3 operating environment. The challenge was to consolidate IT systems for improved energy efficiency and simplified administration and further...
[June 12, 2009, 1:20]
CIOs unconvinced about blades
News The biggest issue for the deployment of blades, which promise cheaper operating costs than traditional rack servers due to their compact form factor and minimal requirement for cabling, is that their different design makes coexistence with...
[February 16, 2005, 13:05]
Compaq blade servers slice a chip off HP block
News A three-unit high (3U) rack enclosure will hold 20 single processor blades, with two- and four-processor blades to follow later in the year. By comparison, HP's blades, launched last year, fit 16 server blades into a 13U enclosure, using 18-inch...
[January 28, 2002, 11:09]
Fujitsu Siemens puts SuSE into servers
News Fujitsu Siemens said on Wednesday it would bundle SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 with its entire line of Primergy servers, which ranges from single-processor systems and blades up to 16-way machines, a move that will give SuSE more exposure to...
[May 14, 2003, 11:58]
Fujitsu readies eight-way blade server
News The Fujitsu product extends a technology direction that Fujitsu began in October when it offered the option to link two Primergy BX630 Opteron blades into a four-processor Opteron server. Alternatively, Fujitsu will upgrade dual-processor blades $2...
[March 14, 2006, 9:00]
IBM sharpens blade plans for 2003
News IBM's forthcoming systems highlight the trend away from comparatively feeble initial blades to more powerful models that can handle a much broader array of computing tasks. I think HP is a more formidable competitor in blades," Benck said, though...
[February 13, 2003, 10:22]
IBM puts Power in new blade server
News IBM's pSeries servers typically run Unix, but for its Power blades, the company expects the Linux operating system to be more popular, he said. IBM on Wednesday unveiled a pair of dual-processor blades during a customer conference in Palm Springs...
[October 24, 2002, 9:13]
Sun hones blade-server range
News The shift will let Sun blades run Linux as well as Sun's Solaris operating system. Blades are strategically important; research firm IDC believes 20 percent of all servers that ship in 2007 will be blades.
[December 3, 2003, 14:00]
Transmeta's low power finds place in supercomputers
News Green Destiny has 240 processors configured as ten sets of 24 blades each, each blade having one 633MHz TM5600 processor, 256MB of memory, 10GB of hard disk and three 100-megabits per second Ethernet interfaces.
[May 20, 2002, 12:47]
Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS
News Microsoft said the next-generation BIOS would allow future versions of Windows to manage server blades when they are connected to a system, without needing to be turned on. Traditionally, it has carried out basic tasks such as hardware and system...
[October 3, 2003, 17:25]
Linux server maker's coffers swell
News The company has about 20 blue-chip customers for its BladeFrame systems, refrigerator-size cabinets with as many as 24 four-processor "blades". With special software, jobs can be shuffled among different blades easily to adjust to changing...
[June 28, 2002, 9:38]
HP adds fault tolerance to blades
News We are using 2.5-inch SAS storage drives as the standard disk for the first time in our blades," Russell said who believes that this helps reduce the footprint of the system as will the twin-cores of the processors in each blade.
[June 17, 2008, 15:45]
'Napping' datacentres could save 75pc of energy
News The paper states: "PowerNap reduces total ensemble power consumption when all blades are napping to only six percent of the peak when all are active. The research team will present their approach for improving the energy efficiency of datacentre...
[March 6, 2009, 7:35]
