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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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
IBM Summit server prepares for takeoff
News It also has "remote I/O," which allows PCI cards to be plugged into a separate cabinet, alleviating the space constraints that usually limit the communication abilities of rack-mounted servers. To squeeze four CPUs into a rack-mounted chassis 5.25...
[November 29, 2001, 14:39]
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. IBM next week will begin selling its first servers with quad-core...
[November 10, 2006, 7:50]
IDF goes beyond chips
News An ICE Cube can be designed, built and delivered in a matter of weeks and can house up to 1,400 of Rackable Systems' Eco-Logical rack-mount, DC-powered servers or storage systems. Onboard the driverless car are blade computers with Intel Core 2 Duo...
[September 21, 2007, 15:48]
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]
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]
HP chills out datacentres
News Rack-mounted and "blade" server models currently fit dozens, or hundreds, of processors in a six-foot rack. It will combine stationary temperature sensors with others mounted on an HP robot patrolling the datacentre.
[March 5, 2003, 12:26]
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. Virtual Infrastructures Create Real Efficiencies.
[September 20, 2007, 0:00]
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics Boosts Supercomputing Power With Dell High-Performance Computing Cluster Based on PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Workstations and Linux SuSe
White Papers Swinburne implemented a high performance computing cluster technology solution with 90 rack-mounted Dell PowerEdge 2650 Dual Xeon servers, 30 Dell Dual Xeon Precision 530s. The challenge was to ensure the continued support of Linux and reduce the...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
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]
Intel keeps the heat on Itanium
News But server manufacturers are increasingly demanding low-power chips for the rack-mounted servers that fill datacentres -- and Itanium generates too much heat to fit inside these so-called "high-density" devices.
[August 10, 2001, 14:31]
HP and Cisco announce blade deal
News Blade servers have gained a lot of interest from customers over traditional rack-mounted servers because they take up less space. The integrated products will make it easier for customers that already use Cisco networking gear to also use HP's...
[February 1, 2005, 8:30]
IBM launches Linux-based blade cluster
News Blades, thin computers that fit into a rack, generally take up less volume than do traditional rack-mounted servers. IBM is combining two popular concepts in computing -- Linux clusters and blade servers -- into a standard system for businesses and...
[May 21, 2003, 8:26]
Server startup banking on novel design
News For one thing, the server has a special "BladePlane", a high-speed connection that substitutes for the profusion of network, power and storage system cables that complicate current rack-mounted servers.
[May 3, 2001, 8:46]
