Sun Expands System Packs Offering With 15 New Servers
MSN MoneyCentral - Sun Microsystems, Inc. SUNW , the creator of the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS), today added 15 new systems to its Sun System(TM) Performance Packs offerings, including its x64 (x86, 64-bit) Sun Fire(TM) x4500 and X4600 servers and Sun Blade(TM

Analysis: Next-Gen Blade Servers
Network Computing - Should you slim down with the newest generation of blade server? Vendors claim the latest systems offer improved flexibility and promise to reduce data center bloat. They’re right — if your infrastructure can support the power and cooling

Briefs, 7/12
Denver Post - Two Sun Fire servers and an ultra-thin Blade server expand the company’s use of Opteron chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun said Tuesday. Servers are used to manage corporate networks and websites. Servers are Sun’s largest

MANAGE ME
Network Computing - The Sun Blade 8000 System offers on each Server Module an Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) on each Server Module that combines with the Chassis Monitoring Module to provide secure, browser-based and on-site access to a broad spectrum of status

IBM Introduces Virtual Fabric Architecture for BladeCenter
MSN MoneyCentral - 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

Three For The Money
Network Computing - HP submitted its new 10-U C-Series BL7000c enclosure along with two full-height and two half-height ProLiant BLc server blades. Sun sent its recently released 19-U Sun Blade 8000 Modular System with four full-height Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules

Blade Servers
Information Week - In some ways the functionality Cassatt offers, especially the centralized management and dynamic reallocation of servers, sounds like Egenera, which combines management software with their own blade server hardware. How is Cassatt different from