Last time, we mentioned some of the values blade servers deliver – limited impact on floor space, device consolidation and centralized management. But the overwhelming majority of server blades are ...

Blade servers have become popular building blocks for enabling converged data centers. They offer the ability to reduce complexity while supporting higher resource densities in terms of compute ...

As companies seek to cast server blades as general-purpose servers, they are building out their server blade infrastructures in a similar fashion to traditional server-network-storage connections. HP ...

Hewlett-Packard is adding a storage module to its blade chassis, letting as much as 876GB be attached to a single blade server. Photo: New storage blade Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

RLX latest offering is what the company calls a “modular computing” solution, containing blade servers and FC (Fibre Channel) storage arrays, plus an enhanced version of its Control Tower management ...

The Sun Blade T6340, which is based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. The Sun Blade X6240, which is based on AMD’s quad-core Opteron 2300 processor. The Sun Blade 6000 storage blade, which offers ...

IBM and Brocade have teamed to add another way for Big Blue's blade servers to access network data storage. IBM said Tuesday that Brocade Communications Systems will soon begin offering two Fibre ...

The new IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration bundle consists of seven IBM server blades, a FAStT storage array, and licenses for DB2, WebSphere and Tivoli, all integrated together and managed by IBM ...

Blade servers are modular, single-board computers, typically about 7 in. high, 2 in. wide and 19 in. deep. Each blade contains processors, memory, network controllers and other I/O ports; it plugs ...

After seeing its first efforts in the booming blade market come to naught, Sun has announced a new high-end blade system and launched two new hybrid server/storage systems, all based on AMD Opteron ...

Odds are that the high-speed storage solution you purchased has validated your decision to buy it and justified the high price you paid for it several times over. But are you using it for best effect?

IBM's proposed acquisition of networking blade switch vendor Blade Network Technologies, while not nearly as dramatic a move as HP's acquisition of 3Com, nevertheless shows that IBM is serious about ...