Last time, we mentioned some of the values blade servers deliver – limited impact on floor space, device consolidation and centralized management. But the overwhelming majority of server blades are ...

Blades offer many advantages over traditional servers, but they create some unique storage and application issues. PETER CHAU is the infrastructure architect at North Shore Credit Union (NSCU), a ...

As companies seek to cast server blades as general-purpose servers, they are building out their server blade infrastructures in a similar fashion to traditional server-network-storage connections. HP ...

You've rolled out that shiny new blade system with all of its power, cooling, and management bells and whistles, but the deal isn't done until you find a home for all of the data your customer's new ...

"The product [c3000] is fairly new, but we've sold a couple of dozen, which is 100 or so odd servers," said Brady Flaherty, a principal in Altos Technology Group, a Sacramento, Calif.-based ...

Blade servers are modular, single-board computers, typically about 7 in. high, 2 in. wide and 19 in. deep. Each blade contains processors, memory, network controllers and other I/O ports; it plugs ...

The company, which is trailing some competitors to the market with super-thin "blade" servers, will begin to catch up when it releases its products in the second half of the year. Sun’s ...

The StorageWorks SB40c blade, available Nov. 14 for a starting price of $1,599, plugs directly into HP's new BladeSystem C-class chassis. It houses up to six SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) or SATA (Serial ...

One look at the HP BladeSystem c7000 blade chassis and you understand why HP sells a lot of blades. The unit is aesthetically pleasing, extremely solid, and well appointed, with an LCD panel for ...

Despite the beginnings of an economic turnaround, corporate IT spending in 2003 did not pick up as fast as the electronics industry would have liked. One bright spot, however, was the rate at which ...

Apple’s Xserve rackmount server and Mac OS X Jaguar Server had their work cut out for them to break into the competitive server market when they were released earlier this year, but analysts think the ...

Server blades and storage Many IT shops are moving from traditional rack-mounted servers to blade configurations in hopes of reducing power and floor space requirements in their data centers. But ...