Blades are more than just a computing box; they're really more of a microcosm of a data centre," MacKay said. Sun Microsystems' first blade servers will appear early in 2003, carrying the initial elements of the company's N1 plan to make large...
Today, we have 16-way SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) systems, with virtualised partitions and robust system management tools at one end and highly dense, integrated blades at the other end," Whitney said.
Blades "lower manageability costs," said Bob Sutherland, an analyst at Technology Business Research. HP is looking at taking the technology behind 'blade' servers and applying it to the desktop environment, seeking to combine the benefits of...
The chassis includes components such as power supplies and external network connections all the blades share. However, one person not yet convinced is Robert Marsh, CEO and "head surfer" of website hosting company EV1Servers.net, who said blades...
Bank BNP Paribas is using a combination of blade servers and on-demand computing to provide the processing power for its fixed income derivatives business. In a multimillion dollar deal, IBM is providing supercomputing power through its new London...
The worldwide offering provides the first set of building blocks based on blade server design specifications released last July by the Server Systems Infrastructure Forum group, which is spearheaded by the chipmaker.
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