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Apple ships rack-mounted server
News Apple has begun shipping its Xserve rack-mounted server, as the company looks to bolster its position in the corporate market and with companies interested in delivering digital media content over the Web.
[July 1, 2002, 16:41]
Apple moves into Asian server market
News Apple has its sights fixed on Asia's multimedia streaming, education and biotech markets as it gears up to push its recently launched Xserve rack-mounted server. The Xserve is Apple's first rack-mounted server.
[August 5, 2002, 15:07]
Dell hones slimmer blades
News The computer maker will unveil a new blade server system in the fourth quarter that will allow customers to put one and a half blade servers into the same space that a 1U rack-mounted server takes up now, but include the vast majority of features...
[June 30, 2004, 9:35]
Apple plans RAID on storage market
News Apple on Monday announced an upgrade to its line of rack-mounted servers and unveiled a line of storage gear. The Xserve RAID systems introduced on Monday feature up to 2.5 terabytes of storage in a 5.25-inch-high rack-mounted system.
[February 11, 2003, 9:40]
IBM smoothes out server connections
News Rack-mounted servers, which resemble a pizza box in size and thickness, offer the same computing power as a stand-alone server. Aside from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and several others manufacturers all have various rack-mounted server...
[July 22, 2002, 10:01]
Infiniband trials 'due in the spring'
News At the front end of the server, you'll see Infiniband used in super-dense rack-mounted servers," said Klein. The Infiniband Trade Association has drawn up specifications for a 3U high rack-mounted server that contains up to seven blades.
[December 7, 2001, 16:49]
HP launches first Integrity blade system
News The new rack-mounted server, the Integrity n2660 costs €5,000, making it the lowest-priced complete Integrity rack mounted system, according to Garstang. Alongside the blade, HP launched another system, available as a standard rack-mount server or...
[February 15, 2007, 16:02]
IBM embraces Opteron across the server line
News Now the product line becomes much broader, with mainstream rack-mounted business servers accommodating two or four processors, and an upgrade that permits two dual-processor blades to be linked into a four-processor server.
[August 2, 2006, 9:35]
HP revamps Intel servers with Xeon chips
News We are basically refreshing the entire product line," Ozil said, though changes to rack-mounted servers will come later. The 22cm-thick system uses the ServerWorks GC-HE chipset and can be mounted in a rack.
[March 12, 2002, 15:02]
Intel unleashes Tulsa in battle with AMD
News The 6800 is a free-standing model, and the 6850 is rack-mounted. For example, the rack-mounted DL580 with dual processors and 4GB of memory costs $8,297 and a similarly configured free-standing ML570 costs $7,477.
[August 30, 2006, 9:25]
Nocona leads Intel's charge into 64-bit
News IBM has two rack-mounted versions, also 1U and 2U thick, as well as a thin blade server, two stand-alone servers and a workstation. HP, the No.seller of Intel-based servers, also has 1U and 2U rack-mounted models, the ProLiant DL360 G4 and DL380 G4...
[August 2, 2004, 10:25]
IBM readies its first quad-core servers
News The x3650, a 3.5-inch-thick rack-mounted machine with a starting price of $2,419 (£1,265) The x3550, a 1.75-inch-thick rack-mounted machine with a starting price of $2,369. Earlier this year, Intel introduced its "Bensley" dual-processor server...
[November 10, 2006, 7:50]
Liquid cooling returns in Egenera blades
News The BladeFrame EX, like its predecessors, is a rack with as many as 24 individual blade servers and a price tag in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, said Susan Davis, Egenera's vice-president of marketing and product management.
[January 24, 2006, 8:25]
Some Dell PowerEdge servers die after smoking
News The PowerEdge 1650 server, a 1U rack-mounted product, was launched in 2002 and replaced by the PowerEdge 1750 last year. The problem is global and could be present in any PowerEdge 1650 server that was manufactured between January and May last year.
[January 22, 2004, 15:10]
Apple confirms Xserve G5 shipping delay
News Apple Computer on Monday confirmed it is behind schedule in shipping its Xserve G5 rack-mounted server. Apple had originally said it would start shipping the product in February, but now says it failed to reach that goal and instead hopes to ship...
[March 9, 2004, 8:05]
Shouldn't your servers be sweating?
Blog Comment I'm not sure how well today's average rack-mounted server would cope if it were forced to run at 30+ degrees but, given that a ground-up approach is taken to CPU design every three years or so, within five or six years it's not unreasonable to...
[August 11, 2009, 20:25]
Intel shows half-size server motherboard
News That size means two of the motherboards can fit inside a single rack-mounted machine just 1.75 inches thick, or 10 can fit vertically in a seven-inch-thick machine. And there are cases where two uniprocessor servers in a rack-mount server is a...
[September 28, 2006, 10:10]
Green Grid Guidelines
White Papers While this approach did enhance service levels and allow for easier management of workloads by avoiding competition for server resources, it left rack-mounted servers woefully underutilised. Virtualisation acts as an antidote to the server sprawl...
[September 20, 2007, 0:00]
Sun Case Study: Oracle
White Papers Sun has factory-integrated and delivered 35 system configurations, each consisting of 30 rack-mounted Netra X1 servers (1050 Netra X1 servers total), associated connectivity hardware, and Oracle's personalized software image.
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Apple delays Xserve storage unit
News Apple has delayed until early next year the launch of its first rack-mounted storage product. We've received an overwhelming thumbs-up on our Xserve 1U rack-mount server from customers and reviewers since it started shipping in July, and now we're...
[November 22, 2002, 7:53]
