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Friday, June 11, 2010
Dell adds GPUs to blade server for performance boost The graphics processing units should speed up server performance in specific-use cases, the company said. The blades include two full-length PCI-Express slots that will be able to accommodate up to two 250-watt graphics cards
Friday, March 19, 2010
HP, IBM, Dell launch servers with new Intel chips The rack, blade and tower servers use Intel's Xeon 5600 quad-core and six-core processors. Industry analysts say the new CPUs will help organizations in their shift to virtualized workloads
Monday, April 27, 2009
IBM to resell Brocade’s Foundry switches Cisco's recent decision to develop its own blade servers may have angered IBM, HP and others in that market. As a result, server vendors are aligning themselves with Cisco competitors in the networking space
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Cisco beta testing blade server With Unified Computing System architecture, the firm promises to break down the barriers between storage, servers and networking using virtualization. Info-Tech’s John Sloan offers his take
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Cisco exec rationalizes data center invasion Rumour has it the network equipment maker will unveil a blade server system next year. Find out what company officials revealed at the C-Scape conference
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Cisco is big tease about 'Big Bang' switch upgrade At its analyst conference in California, company executives gave a sneak peek into Cisco’s switching and video conferencing road maps. Find out what they said about cloud computing security
Monday, March 31, 2008
HP debuts Barcelona-based quad-core servers Three machines will include AMD’s Opteron 2352, while HP’s blade server for mid-sized firms, the Intel Xeon-based ProLiant BL260c G5, is designed to cut power use. An Info-Tech analyst says smaller companies may be interested in a low-end blade
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Dell adds PowerEdge blades for data centre play The company counters offering from HP and IBM with its M-Series, which will include a 10U enclosure along with systems management technology intended to keep energy costs down 
Monday, May 21, 2007
Teak switch targets Ethernet congestion Startup Teak Technologies has debuted a 10G Ethernet switch for blade servers. The hook is a new traffic-management and congestion-detection technology built into the hardware, which, the company says, eliminates latency and makes standard 10G connections look slow. 
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Vendors roll out telco wares at ITU At ITU in Hong Kong last month, IBM unveiled security hardware, software and services for the core of service provider networks that underpin new IP-based voice, video, push-to-talk and presence services.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Woodbine puts bet on Novell When it came to updating its collaboration system and improving its desktop management, Woodbine Entertainment Group didn’t want to go with any old solution. The provider of racing, gaming and entertainment products needed something that would improve security while increasing productivity and cost savings.
Monday, March 21, 2005
HP ramps up SMB server pitch Hewlett-Packard Canada Co. believes small and medium businesses can reap large gains by investing more heavily in server technology and this week the company launched an educational initiative designed to show SMBs how servers can make their firms more efficient. On the small business side, HP is targeting companies that have no server investments. “Our estimate is that as much as 40 per cent of the small business community in Canada…does not have a server today,” says Paul Brousseau, SMB segment marketing manager for HP Canada. 
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Dell unveils big plans for server blades Dell Inc.’s recent push into the blade server space — a relatively immature market — is a sign that enterprises are seeing the value of blades within the data centre. 
Thursday, March 18, 2004
IBM targets telecom providers with new blade system IBM Corp. this week announced an expansion of its blade server lineup with a system designed specifically for telecommunications providers that must adhere to rigorous uptime requirements.
Monday, March 08, 2004
Fujitsu ships new Xeon blade server Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. on Tuesday will begin shipping its first blade server based on Intel Corp.'s Xeon DP processor.
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Sun unveils its first AMD blade Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will unveil the first product of its recently announced partnership with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD): a blade server based on AMD's 1.53 GHz Mobile Athlon XP 1800+ processor. The Sun Fire B100 blade server will be the first AMD-based system designed by Sun, the company said.
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
IBM to expand blade server line IBM Corp. will continue to build out its blade server line throughout the course of this year, adding faster processors to current systems and delivering a new design that packs more computing power in a smaller space.
Monday, September 16, 2002
IBM and Intel team on blade servers IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. have decided to make blade servers together: The two companies announced a partnership Tuesday that could shake up the competitive landscape for some of the server world's freshest technology.
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