Brocade integrates (kills) McData products
TechWorld - The company will discontinue McData’s blade server modules and continue to offer its own blade switch modules for HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens and Hitachi blade servers . It will discontinue its Application Services Module, though continue to sell

Mallesons plots virtual future with VMWare
ZDNet Australia - We looked at blade-server technologies and came up with the same cost problem. We have our datacentres offsite, which really means we cannot afford to be flippant with real estate.” “We saw that we could dramatically reduce the amount of physical

HP Adds New Storage Bricks to Consolidation Road
InternetNews.com - Baeverstad said HP is also offering Cisco’s MDS 9124e Fabric Switch for its c-Class BladeSystem server, fitting the blade server with 4-gigabit Fibre Channel performance. Embedding the switch directly into the blade chassis accomplishes several

Blade server shootout: Dell vs. HP vs. Sun
Infoworld - Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Although the other blade solutions in our test ranged in size from 7U to 10U, Sun s system came in the door at a whopping 19U. Of course, Sun s take on blades is a little different: It was the only blade solution to