As companies seek to cast server blades as general-purpose servers, they are building out their server blade infrastructures in a similar fashion to traditional server-network-storage connections. HP ...

Blade servers have become popular building blocks for enabling converged data centers. They offer the ability to reduce complexity while supporting higher resource densities in terms of compute ...

We found that blade servers reduce but don’t eliminate redundant hardware components requiring electrical power, a pivotal consideration in total cost of ownership (TCO). That said, while IBM’s blade ...

All-flash storage array maker Pure Storage on March 14 took a tip from the server business and introduced the industry’s first storage blade server, called the FlashBlade. Blades in IT are known for ...

Hewlett-Packard is adding a storage module to its blade chassis, letting as much as 876GB be attached to a single blade server. Photo: New storage blade Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

You've rolled out that shiny new blade system with all of its power, cooling, and management bells and whistles, but the deal isn't done until you find a home for all of the data your customer's new ...

The Sun Blade T6340, which is based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. The Sun Blade X6240, which is based on AMD’s quad-core Opteron 2300 processor. The Sun Blade 6000 storage blade, which offers ...

"The product [c3000] is fairly new, but we've sold a couple of dozen, which is 100 or so odd servers," said Brady Flaherty, a principal in Altos Technology Group, a Sacramento, Calif.-based ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a suite of compact blade servers today, positioning itself as a leader among large vendors in offering the emerging technology. Blade systems are complete servers on a ...

IBM and Brocade have teamed to add another way for Big Blue's blade servers to access network data storage. IBM said Tuesday that Brocade Communications Systems will soon begin offering two Fibre ...

Blade servers are modular, single-board computers, typically about 7 in. high, 2 in. wide and 19 in. deep. Each blade contains processors, memory, network controllers and other I/O ports; it plugs ...

Server blades are the newest--and hottest--trend in data center technology. Blades take the idea of server density to the extreme by combining all server system hardware--the CPU, memory, disk drives, ...