BladeRunner Is Linux Cluster-ReadyeWeek - The BladeRunner uses mobile ATA hard drives for internal blade storage, similar to the Sun Fire B1600. Each BladeRunner blade server can accommodate two 60GB, 5,400-rpm mobile ATA drives. Next page: SATA disk blades option. Click here for detailed
Photos: Australian Open 2007ZDNet Australia - All the technology action at the Australian Open Tennis Championships 2007 in Melbourne. Fans file in for the start of another day s play at Australian Open 2007 . Credit: Steven Deare, ZDNet Australia Underneath Rod Laver Arena, an IBM blade
Baseline’s Top 10 Projects in ‘06Baseline - Schulz is leading TACC’s project to convert Lonestar from 512 standalone servers to a 1,024-processor blade-server system from Dell, running Linux operating systems. To let all of those processors communicate as if they were one gigantic system, TACC
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Market Wire - The new switch from BLADE — Nortel 10G Ethernet Switch Module (10GbESM) — utilizes Broadcom’s low power chips designed to empower networking equipment to transmit, manage and prioritize increasing amounts of complex voice, video and data traffic
Sun sharpens blade server recordITP.net - Sun labs: The newly designed blade server allows companies to work at higher capacity. Sun Microsystems claims to have developed the fastest blade server on the planet. Posting three new performance world records, the Sun Blade X8420 server module
BLADE Network Technologies Delivers Industry’s First Native 10 Gigabit Market Wire - According to a recent Tolly Group test summary comparing BLADE’s 10GE blade server switch with the Cisco Catalyst 6509 10GE chassis switch, the BLADE switch excels with 9x lower latency and 2x better throughput performance than the tested Cisco 6509 [...]
Dell revamps product group, adds executivesZDNet - In other moves, Rich Becker and Richard Conrad defected from rival HP to run Dell’s blade server business and worldwide procurement operations, respectively. On the departures side, John Medica, who was to lead Dell’s push to come up with cutting-edge