Archive for September, 2006

“blade news” - IBM widens ‘AMD’ server range

IBM widens ‘AMD’ server rangeTrade Arabia, Bahrain - 11 hours ago… The introduction of the industry s first snap-in scalable blade server that allows customers to simply snap in an additional two socket AMD blade to …

“blade news” - Intel announces quad-core at fall Intel Developer’s Forum

Intel announces quad-core at fall Intel Developer’s ForumeChannelLine, Canada - Sep 27, 2006… core Intel Xeon processor called the L5310 for blade servers … going to wait and see when Dell, HP and various other third party server manufacturers will …

“blade news” - Cisco bulks up data center switching

Cisco bulks up data center switchingSearch Networking - Sep 25, 2006… Cisco already offers the Catalyst Blade Switch 3000 Series for … the GigE Switch Module for the HP p-Class … Ethernet Switch Module for IMB e-server BladeCenter. …

“blade news” - HEARD ON THE STREET

HEARD ON THE STREETWall Street Journal (subscription), NY - Sep 27, 2006… In particular, HP has boosted its market share by revenue in blade servers — a small but fast-growing segment of the server market — to 38.9%, rivaling …

“blade news” - Studying Linux migrations abroad

Studying Linux migrations abroadLinuxWorld.com, NJ - Sep 26, 2006… of its Windows, and some older Novell NetWare, servers switched over to SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. The college installed IBM blade server hardware running …

“blade news” - New Challenges For Data Center Managers

New Challenges For Data Center Managers Information Week - In 2000, the average server rack used 2 kilowatts; in 2006, that rose to about 24 kilowatts in a blade server rack, says Peter Panfil, VP of power engineering for Liebert, which makes power systems, and it’s expected to increase to as much as 40 [...]

“blade news” - QLogic Showcases High Performance Fibre Channel and InfiniBand …

QLogic Showcases High Performance Fibre Channel and InfiniBand …PrimeZone (press release), CA - Sep 26, 2006… Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre … is also a leading supplier of server networking products … EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC …