He said: "Our new IBM eServer delivers a big leap in power and significant new functionality while our competitors are still pointing to products in 2001," he said in a statement. Code named Turbo, the server is based on the company's RS/6000 S80...
HP is to upgrade its ProLiant BL10e blade server with a 1GHz Pentium M - a processor code-named Banias that should boost performance over the current 900MHz ultra-low-voltage Pentium III used in the current product.
Similarly, IBM started to resell a blade server from RLX Technologies that used chips from Transmeta but then came out with its own blade server, signed a blade alliance with Intel and cancelled its deal with RLX.
The blade market is still relatively small - 2 per cent of server spending, though around 5 per cent of server shipments now in Europe, according to IDC figures - but growing in importance. Dell has entered the blade server market, where companies...
HP is adding to its server arsenal with the purchase of blade pioneer RLX Technologies. With the acquisition, HP gains the RLX Control Tower, a software suite designed for managing Linux-based blade server environments.
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...