Blade Servers

Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server?
The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems enter this market as well, ...

Prepare a Self-Installing Drive for Blade Servers
developerWorks: Follow these nine steps to build a bootable, self-installing hard disk drive for an IBM BladeCenter HS20 blade server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10...

Fujitsu continues innovation of the blade platform
Adding the BladeEngine, a unified Ethernet and iSCSI network controller to its PRIMERGY Blade Servers, Fujitsu Siemens Computers introduces advanced support for fully-virtualized datacenter environments. PRIMERGY BX600 series Server ...

Q & A--GOV. RITTER ANNOUNCES ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARTNERSHIP WITH ...
A. Today, the program is focused on client and volume server systems, where the largest opportunity for power savings exists. By nature of the design requirements of blade server systems, many of the power delivery components in these ...

Dell Embraces Egenera’s PAN Manager to Create a Virtual Datacenter
This relationship could really become very interesting should Dell decide to deploy PAN Manager on its new PowerEdge M1000e blade servers, or link PAN Manager into the OpenManage framework. Neither of these projects has been formally ...

Getting ready for Windows 2008
At the launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany, Fujitsu Siemens Computers presented its range of PRIMERGY servers, ideally positioned to support the new products. ...

Cisco Blade Server
Cisco Blade Server The main advantage using cisco blade servers is on the cost effective of Power, Cooling, Physical space, Management, Server provisioning, Connectivity (I/O server) like other server, Blade servers actually is only ...

HP develops ‘smart’ software for data centers
resources the same way, allowing users to save money and power. These logical servers are detachable and could then be moved across the infrastructure and serve as physical blade servers.Inquirer.net.

Looking at the IBM x3950M2
I was checking out the specs of the IBM System X series servers, in particular to do with the quad core Intel processors. This page on the IBM site has got a lot of detail on their new x3950M2 which does look cool, and includes options ...

10-Gigabit Ethernet switches reviewed; Vista SP1: Threat or menace?
Is Cisco coming out with a blade server? Grumpy old telco workers are the bane of a data networking guy's life. NEW FROM OUR BLOGGERS: Brad Reese details how to upgrade or replace power supply in Cisco Catalyst 6500 switch; ...