Sun Microsystems' first blade servers will appear early in 2003, carrying the initial elements of the company's N1 plan to make large complexes of computers behave like a single resource. Blade servers, which pack several slim systems into a single...
HP is looking at taking the technology behind 'blade' servers and applying it to the desktop environment, seeking to combine the benefits of centrally managed computing systems with the familiarity of PCs.
We did take a look at blades, but by and large, the cost related to deployment of blades far surpasses any savings you might gain in space, power or cooling," Marsh said. Hewlett-Packard will today announce a new, thinner blade server that will...
The increase in server densities and the greater computing power required in IT today means organisations need more power, both to run and to cool systems, than ever before. Resilience can be built in and the whole unit engineered for optimum cooling.
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...
Given the increasing use of high density hardware such as multi-core processors and blade servers, excessive power and cooling demands could lead to a rise in server failures, according to Aperture Research Institute (ARI), a division of software...
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