Blade Servers

Verari announces its BR2-XM blade platform
Interestingly, Verari seem to have improved the thermal management of their blade servers, which is very cool, I remember the main concern deploying high performance blade servers was the associated cooling/power requirements; ...

ESX 3i hypervisor on dell blades with a single click
Dell PowerEdge servers are considered to be an ideal platform for customers to deploy virtualization environments. Its PowerEdge 2950-III and Dell’s new PowerEdge M-Series blade solution servers provide good virtualization performance ...

Not just hot hair, Dell blade thermal design
Heather Clancy, an award-winning business journalist, reports on Dell blade thermal design (M-Series) on her ZDNET blog. She relates her analysis on the in-depth Dell white paper on Thermal Design for the Dell Blade M-Series. ...

5 Ways to Recession-proof your IT
Is Cisco coming out with a blade server? http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26220. Isn't the next step for Cisco to come out with its own blade servers for its big Nexus 7000 switch? Some think so. ...

ALS Systems Maintenance Sunday, March 30th, 2008
ITCS will be doing maintenance from 5 AM -12 Noon on Sunday, March 30th for our VM boxes and our blade servers housed at Cotanche. This will cause intermittent downtime during the hours of 5am and 12 pm. All resources are expected to be ...

Top500 and Windows-based HPC
Hardware Configuration The Microsoft Rainier cluster is designed to be a scalable test bed built with Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade servers on 256 nodes and 2048 cores running at 1.8Ghz. The connection is CISCO infiniband. ...

CISCO Linux 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 ...

End of Life for Select Sun Blade, Sun Fire, and Ultra Products
With newer generation products in place, Sun has decided to retire a few Sun Blade configurations and products along with Sun Fire and Ultra products. These include Sun Blade X8420 Server Module with AMD Opteron 8216 Processor; ...

Browser-Based User Interface Functionality Added to Sun Blade 6000
Sun Blade 6000 chassis 1.1a firmware provides a browser-based user interface (BUI) to the ILOM 2.0.3.1 for the Sun Blade 6000 Chassis Management Module (CMM), giving users a choice of Command Line Interface (CLI) or BUI for managing and ...

EPA to aid in the data center carbon footprint?
March 24, 2008 (Computerworld) At one time, small x86-based servers were the darlings of the data center — inexpensive, easily replaced and easily added. Today, these systems have become akin to a cancer, consuming ever-increasing ...