Archive for March, 2007

“blade news” - Aristos Logic Appoints Storage Industry Veteran Keith Knight as Vice

Aristos Logic Appoints Storage Industry Veteran Keith Knight as Vice Consumer Electronics Net - FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE — Aristos Logic, the industry leader in RAID Storage Processors, announced today that Keith Knight has been named the Vice President of Operations, reporting directly to Aristos Logic CEO, Anil Gupta. Knight [...]

“blade news” - IBM finally unveils Opteron blades

IBM finally unveils Opteron bladesNetwork World Fusion - The company heads the blade server sales charts leader and reckons that this will help it extend its lead over HP and Sun, both of whom already sell extensive ranges of Opteron-based blade servers

“blade hardware” - AMD Offers Low-Power Opteron Processors

AMD Offers Low-Power Opteron ProcessorseWeek - Another test, the SPECint, compared a dual-core Opteron 8220 on a four-way Sun Blade x8420 server, which received a performance rating of 80.4 percent, with a dual-core Xeon on a four-way IBM System x 3800, which offered a 64.8 percent performance

“blade hardware” - Emulex Offers New Fibre Channel Network Express Module for Sun Blade

Emulex Offers New Fibre Channel Network Express Module for Sun Blade PrimeZone - COSTA MESA, Calif., Feb. 6, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) (PRIMEZONE) — Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the new 4Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) 20-port Network Express Module (NEM) and 2-port ExpressModule(tm) (EM) host bus adapter for Sun’s record

“blade news” - Reality IT: Server Consolidation Takes Time

Reality IT: Server Consolidation Takes Time Network Computing - We considered a blade server alternative but decided against it. Marvin wanted true server consolidation, not just individual servers in a blade enclosure. And Dirk didn’t like the idea of deciding which applications would fit onto what blade. Dig

“blade news” - Hewlett-Packard Co.’s ProLiant BL p-Class Blade System

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s ProLiant BL p-Class Blade SystemeWeek - The BL20p G3 blades are priced starting at $3,600 each; the BL30p blades have an entry price of $2,350 each. The ProLiant BL p-Class blade server enclosure starts at $1,500. The well-equipped BL p-Class system we tested costs about $17,022. More

“blade news” - Hurd: HP Still Does Not Cover Enough Accounts

Hurd: HP Still Does Not Cover Enough Accounts CRN - Hurd said attach rates are important in driving more robust configurations in the personal systems segment where blade server sales were up 45 percent compared to the year ago quarter. “Attach is a very important thing for us,” he said. “To be able [...]