Archive for November, 2007

“blade hardware” - Sun servers get new virtualisation option

Sun servers get new virtualisation optionZDNet UK - Sun’s Solaris 10 is already an option for running on VMware, a proprietary virtualisation software package, and on Tuesday the Sun Blade 8000 will be certified to run VMware ESX Server 3.0.1. With Xen, however, multi-OS virtualisation will essentially

“blade hardware” - Sun’s fixed-content storage system, Honeycomb, comes out of hive

Sun’s fixed-content storage system, Honeycomb, comes out of hiveComputerworld - Sun also added to its Constellation high-performance computing announcement initially made in June, detailing three aspects of Constellation: the Sun Blade 6048, with up to 48 processing blades; the X4500 hybrid storage/server system (Thumper); and

“blade hardware” - Storage arrays are dead; long live the tape library

Storage arrays are dead; long live the tape libraryComputerworld Australia - Both HP and Sun are reducing the tonnage in entry-level models to make those boats more appealing to a broader market. (See the HP BladeSystem c3000 and Paul Venezia’s review of the Sun Blade 6000 for details.) Other vendors will follow, if they haven [...]

“blade hardware” - Reviews : Hardware : Servers : Blades

Reviews : Hardware : Servers : Blades Australian PC World - As the little brother to the Sun Blade 8000 series, the 6000 series offers plenty of expansion, and more blade options than any other blade system. With SAS/SATA SFF disk support, optional RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 on the Intel blades, CompactFlash support [...]

“blade hardware” - New Sun Servers Capitalize on Design Innovation, Pack the Power of 64

New Sun Servers Capitalize on Design Innovation, Pack the Power of 64 Consumer Electronics Net - Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Blade, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under [...]

“blade news” - Software as appliance

Software as applianceNetwork World Fusion - When you’re buying a blade server, the last thing you want to do is buy 10 copies of an operating system, 10 different applications and 10 pieces of management software, integrate it and load it all

“blade news” - eWEEK Visits HP s Houston Development Lab, Reviews c3000

eWEEK Visits HP s Houston Development Lab, Reviews c3000eWeek - eWEEK Labs was invited to Hewlett Packard’s Houston, Texas, Development Lab for an exclusive opportunity to test the new c3000 blade server in the spot where it was created. This server is part of HP s c-Class, which also includes the [...]