Egenera, which has been selling four-processor blades since March, touted its approach, in which each blade loses its individual identity so that tasks can easily be shuffled from one blade to another.
Sun will also cut prices on midrange and high-end machines by as much as 35 per cent, release its new 12-processor Sun Fire v1280 and its new "blade" servers, and improve its N1 plan for managing large quantities of computing hardware.
Blades using Intel processors will appear next quarter for the same price, and can be mixed in the same shelves alongside the SPARC blades. The Intel blades will run Linux or Sun's Solaris, and the SPARC blades will run Solaris.
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Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu will merge their Sparc processor-based server lines by mid-2006, the companies said on Tuesday. In October, Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Bernstein Investment Research and Management, estimated that joint development...
However you configure it, a blade chassis is intelligent, enabling the blades to share data and power. What is vital, however, is that IT asset management is linked to the needs of the business - the move to blade computing may cut costs, for...
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