Rising power costs hit data centres hard
IT Week, UK - Oct 26, 2006… High-density technologies, such as blade computers, have enabled … by major suppliers such as IBM, HP and Dell. … of new ultra-thin high density server designs and …
Archive for October, 2006
Exclusive: BladeFrame EX slices, dices, dazzles
Infoworld - overall solution lacks some small features you might expect to be present. Nevertheless, Egenera succeeds in delivering a modular, high-performance, and highly adaptive blade server
Fujitsu to Display New 20-port, 10Gbps Ethernet Switch Chip, Release
WTNH.com - The new chip cost-effectively meets the requirements for backplane switching in the ATCA, microTCA and blade-server environments.” Tutorial on 10Gbps Ethernet Data Fabric for ATCA Applications Fujitsu and its customer Celestica will co-present a
Modularized system componentry - a tour of tomorrow - part 3 of 4
Computerworld - There are a number of solutions in this space, from virtual I/O approaches to unified wire interfaces which hint at the convergence upon the same kind of universality of connection as available in blade server backplanes with virtualized I/O
HP To Double Server Rebates For SMB Accounts
CRN - Hewlett-Packard is preparing to launch a new Elite blade server program for partners and plans to double rebates for VARs selling industry-standard servers (ISS) to new HP customers in SMB and public-sector markets beginning Nov. 1. “We were paying
Dell steals HP’s blade boy Becker
Register, UK - Oct 25, 2006… been brought on to give Dell’s blade server business a boost. The company, like Sun Microsystems, has struggled to make much headway against IBM and HP in the …
Smaller, Cooler Blades
ITworld.com, MA - Oct 24, 2006… You may have read about HP’s new c-Class BladeSystem products, including a blade version of their outstandingly popular DL380 server. …