Server Blades

Your source for the latest blade server news and resources.

How Cisco UCS reinvents the datacenter
Nov. 10, 2009
If you could design a blade server system entirely from scratch, it might look a whole lot like Cisco's Unified Computing System

HP prepares new Integrity servers for Tukwila launch
Sep. 30, 2009
Hewlett-Packard will make some significant updates to its Integrity server line next year to coincide with the launch of Intel's first quad-core Itanium processor, known as Tukwila, an HP executive said.

Server vendors see sharp declines in shipments, revenue
Sep. 04, 2009
This year continues to be tough for server vendors, which have seen dramatic declines in business due to lower investments by companies in new hardware, according to analysts IDC and Gartner.

IBM SSDs spread across product lines
May. 21, 2009
IBM on Thursday continued its push into SSDs (solid-state drives), announcing flash drives for server and storage platforms as well as new software for allocating data among different types of drives.

Data Center Dustup Favors Cisco
Mar. 17, 2009
Cisco stirred up a hornet's nest among server vendors with the announcement that it was explicitly getting into the blade-based server market.

After the Open, Tennis Australia CIO shoots for winning IT
Feb. 18, 2009
Being appointed an organisation's first CIO is a challenge at the best of times, but when you have an international Grand Slam tennis tournament to prepare for in two months things are just that much more hectic.

Sun fires back at Cisco with blade network switch
Apr. 14, 2009
Sun introduced its Nehalem-based server line-up on Tuesday, along with a new networking product that takes aim at an emerging rival in the server market, Cisco.

Turning Up the Heat to Save Energy
Jan. 19, 2009
The temperature's rising in online brokerage Scottrade's data center - and that's a good thing. The move has allowed the St. Louis-based company to reap enormous energy savings while increasing reliability.

Sun in the Ice Age
Jul. 10, 2009
Blue Sky Studios, a wholly-owned unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, deployed Sun Blade servers and Sun Ultra workstations for the rendering of its new animated feature Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

China's chips to power blade servers this year
May. 05, 2009
Blade servers based on microprocessors designed in China will power a supercomputer prototype to be revealed by a government-backed Chinese firm in September, the company said Tuesday.

Savvis tests Cisco's new UCS and virtualization server
Mar. 17, 2009
IT infrastructure service provider Savvis has been testing Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) for about three weeks and expects to take the technology to another level of evaluation later this year in a bake-off ...

Cisco's data-center push holds promise, perils
Mar. 11, 2009
Cisco's move into the heart of data centers, expected to be laid out at an event next Monday, holds the promise of easing a big IT headache but may also escalate competition between the company and its partners.

Server revenue sees big drop in Q4, IDC says
Feb. 25, 2009
Worldwide server revenue saw its biggest quarterly drop in years in the last quarter of 2008 and may not recover until next year, IDC said in a survey released on Wednesday.

NFL's Super Bowl IT team gets ready for game day
Jan. 30, 2009
The National Football League is fielding three teams for Sunday's Super Bowl. The first two are well known: the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. The third, more anonymous one is the 17-member IT staff that ...

More power at a price
Mar. 03, 2008
Blade server deployment is an attractive proposition for companies seeking greater computing power from their servers, while occupying the same floor space. However, more heat is also generated, raising the need for ...

Dell says its blades are the best for the planet
Jan. 22, 2008
Dell unveiled its new line of blade servers on Monday with boasts and chest-thumping, calling the new model better the competition and offering its own independent study to prove it -- vendor rhetoric par for the course ...

Intel releases low-cost Clear Bay server platform
Jan. 11, 2008
Intel has developed a white-box blade server based on standardized components, instead of specialized parts usually used to produce such systems.

PARTNERWORLD - IBM plans to create SMB blade bundles
May. 02, 2007
IBM intends to make its blade servers more attractive to small-to-midsize business customers and help its business partners target those users.

IBM taps VMware, Citrix to create blade PCs
Oct. 31, 2005
After spending the past few years on the sidelines, IBM has finally jumped headlong into the blade PC market, announcing partnerships with Citrix and EMC's VMware subsidiary to provide customers with the means to manage ...

Cisco has to earn market leadership, CTO says
Jul. 01, 2009
Cisco Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior struck a humble note in a keynote address at the Cisco Live user conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, saying Cisco needs a broad architecture and services to become ...

Massive server purchase likely in Chinese Warcraft deal
Apr. 17, 2009
Chinese online game firm NetEase.com will buy all-new servers to start operating World of Warcraft in China this year, potentially leaving masses of unused computing clusters in the hands of the current Chinese operator ...

Cisco prepares to take on server market
Mar. 16, 2009
Cisco will turn the tables on erstwhile partners on Monday when it announces details of what is expected to be a line of systems that fuse switching and traditional server capabilities.

Cisco launches unified computing system
Mar. 16, 2009
In a much-anticipated announcement, Cisco Monday launched its Unified Computing System, comprising virtualization technology, services and blade servers aimed at helping enterprises develop and manage what it calls " ...

Sharp turns like Cisco's have a long history
Mar. 14, 2009
If Cisco announces its first blade servers on Monday, as expected, the news may well herald a major expansion of the dominant networking company's business. But even though it's the most hotly anticipated move in a long ...

Rackable puts desktop CPUs in low-cost servers
Jan. 22, 2009
Rackable Systems has turned to low-cost desktop components for a new server design that aims to provide a cheaper alternative for companies running busy Web applications, the company announced Wednesday.