Blade Servers

CISCO Linux-based blade servers
Cisco is set to shake up the blade server market again, bundling in with their Nexus 7000 Series data center switches. They already have Linux-based blades for their Catalyst 6500 Series switches, which is in competition with other ...

Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server?
The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems enter this market as well, ...

BladeEngine for PRIMERGY Blade Servers delivers unified network …
Adding the BladeEngine, a unified Ethernet and iSCSI network controller to its PRIMERGY Blade Servers, Fujitsu Siemens Computers introduces advanced support for fully-virtualized datacenter environments. PRIMERGY BX600 series Server ...

Blade Servers
Blade servers are self-contained computer servers, designed for high density. Slim, hot swappable blade servers fit in a single chassis like books in a bookshelf - and each is an independent server, with its own processors, memory, ...

Blade Servers and How They Effect Your TCO
First of all, what is a blade server? The best way to answer that question is to compare it to a traditional low-profile dual-processor 1U (one rack unit) rack-mount server. An Intel blade server chassis houses up to 14 dual Xeon ...

Cross-post - GigaOm: Coming Soon - the Cisco Blade Server?
I wrote a blog post this week on the possibility of Cisco moving into the enterprise data center by offering blade servers for their new Nexus 7000 switch. I think this move is inevitable given that Cisco, IBM, HP, Microsoft, ...

Sun To Offer Ubuntu Linux Based Servers
Look like Red hat and Novell going to have some nice competition. Sun offers x64-based systems certified for Ubuntu Linux:. x64 Rack Servers; Blade Servers; x64 Workstations; Workgroup Disk Storage; Tape Automation ...

Virtual Environments will be more secure than their physical ...
Imagine being able to improve your performance by taking advantage of the multi-core processing and blade server computing trends vs. waiting for the next super fast security ASIC chip. In the past it’s been difficult to get security as ...

EMGS Opens Europe’s Top-Ten Computing Cluster
It carries a total memory of 22 terabytes, and can perform 70 teraflops. The company previously had a smaller cluster, comprised of 500 blade servers, that were each equipped with two dual-core CPUs. Accord...

Ideas For VMWare ESX Server Virtual Servers
We imaged theses systems to VMWare ESX virtual servers using Ghost and an in place upgrade to get them booting again. We were able to run eight servers on a two processor Dell Blade server. Use VMWare for a Development and Staging ...