Archive for April, 2007

“blade news” - 10G-bit Ethernet arrives for blades

10G-bit Ethernet arrives for blades
IT World - We are taking data center performance and affordability to the next level for enterprise customers and paving the way for mainstream adoption of 10GE blade systems.” The Blade Nortel 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module is $9,799 and the NetXen 10G Ethernet

“blade hardware” - Time For Airlines To Get Past The Mainframe Era

Time For Airlines To Get Past The Mainframe Era
Tech Dirt - Then, they start costing out what it takes to run 1000 Sun blade servers in terms of maintenance, administration, software licenses and configuration, electricity, floor space, etc; and they quickly realize that not

IBM’s 65nm Cell Could Chip Away PS3 Costs
TechNewsWorld - While IBM is marketing a Blade server built around the Cell processor, Reynolds does not expect to see the chip in a standard PC because of the difficulty associated with combining the Cell technology and other chips. “It has eight processors inside

SGI selects Neterion’s latest 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters for servers
Network World Fusion - The Altix series ranges from a dense blade server, to a supercomputing platform for high-performance computing (HPC), to a midrange blade server with dual-core processors, to an entry-level server that can scale to support

Maine college virtualizes its servers
Network World Fusion - It drops a VM onto the blade server hardware, runs the cycles it needs and then [drops on] the next one, cycling through all of them. The virtual machines are exploiting what previously would have

“blade hardware” - Company or Topic: Sun Microsystems

Company or Topic: Sun Microsystems
CNET News - SUN MICROSYSTEMS said it is ready, willing and able to start selling its microprocessors to third party companies and not keep them all for itself. Schwartz Guides Sun to Light at Tunnel’s End ( TechNewsWorld ) - Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Scott

Avaya to announce service for hosted VoIP
Network World Fusion - The company also plans to introduce the S8400 Media Server - a Linux-based blade server card that slides into legacy PBX or gateway voice equipment, converting the gear to IP.