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Sun's newest server: Dynamite comes in small packages Late last year, I conducted an exhaustive test of Dell, HP, and Sun blade systems at InfoWorld's Hawaii labs. Everyone brought the big boxes, and we ran them through their paces using the SPEChpc benchmark suite. It was a great test that produced some unexpected results -- namely, the Dell blades took a surprising victory over both Sun and HP. Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.  September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM bolsters blade family with Cell upgrade IBM announced an upgraded version of its blade server based on the Cell processor on Wednesday, adding memory and data throughput for better performance on high-end applications, such as graphics and finance. August 30, 12:24 p.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Intel backs specification for low-cost blade servers Intel expects a draft specification for blade servers to help vendors cut their development costs and push the space-saving systems into new markets. July 30, 4:21 a.m. PDT APC instruments mark the rebirth of cool The tried and true methods of prepping a datacenter haven't changed much over the years. You find a massive air conditioner or three, bring in lots of juice, and make sure there aren't any sprinkler heads in the ceiling. But although this is the way it's always been done, APC is betting that it's not the way it will be done in the future -- except for the sprinkler heads. July 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM offers blade server for the little guy IBM Corp. is adding to its blade server line with an upcoming model targeted at small-to-medium-sized businesses. June 13, 10:15 a.m. PDT Sun launches first blades from new Intel deal Sun Microsystems is reaching for a larger share of the blade server market with Wednesday's launch of new models, including the first-ever Sun blades from its new alliance with chip maker Intel. June 6, 4:59 a.m. PDT IBM plans to create SMB blade bundles IBM intends to make its blade servers more attractive to small to midsize business (SMB) customers and help its business partners target those users. May 2, 6:06 a.m. PDT CEO: SMB to become IBM's 'largest industry' The head of IBM expects the company's small to midsize business (SMB) operation to become the vendor's biggest industry focus within a couple of years. May 2, 4:48 a.m. PDT IBM gives peek at blade workstation IBM Corp. is developing a blade workstation, set to hit the market later this year, that moves the workstation from under a desk into the data center. May 1, 8:56 a.m. PDT Rolling out a startup a day Tomorrow is May Day -- a festival that is freighted with meaning, whether you're celebrating spring and earthly renewal, observing pagan rituals, or even reveling in politics. Personally, I like to think of May as a time of fresh starts, as in, "I may finally begin that project this month." April 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP blends Mercury, Openview software Did HP swallow Mercury, or did Mercury swallow HP? April 24, 7:55 a.m. PDT Sun, Fujitsu and Hitachi freshen server lines Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are introducing new servers Tuesday that they jointly developed, while another server maker, Hitachi, is unveiling new blade servers. They each aim to address buyers' dual needs for computing power and energy efficiency. April 17, 6:05 a.m. PDT IBM puts blades on a low-carb(on) diet IBM Corp. is adding to its server lineup with new models featuring lower-wattage processors and flash memory instead of disks, all in the name of energy conservation. April 12, 3:15 p.m. PDT Virtual Iron joins HP partner program Virtual Iron Inc., the open source underdog to virtualization industry leader VMware Inc., has been chosen to join a Hewlett-Packard Co. partnership program and has landed the travel Web site Priceline.com Inc. as a customer. March 26, 4:17 a.m. PST Intel to release more efficient quad-core Xeons Intel Corp. quad-core microprocessors that work at an energy-efficient 50 watts per processor will officially be on the market starting Monday, according to the company. March 11, 2:40 a.m. PST Daylight-saving time a nuisance, but no Y2K Timed stock market trades will go awry. Manufacturing lines will grind to a halt. Perplexed executives will hold court before empty conference rooms. These are just a few of the doomsday scenarios that have been tossed out in advance of daylight-saving time, which has been bumped up by two weeks this year by order of the U.S. Congress. March 7, 8:30 a.m. PST HP moves to simplify datacenter setup Hewlett-Packard has begun shipping a new product that the company thinks will give it an edge over rival IBM in the market for blade servers. February 27, 4:14 a.m. PST HP unveils new Integrity servers, Unix OS Hewlett-Packard is introducing a long-awaited upgrade to its Unix operating system and launching new, affordable Integrity servers in a direct challenge to rival products from IBM and Sun Microsystems. February 15, 4:39 a.m. PST IBM eyes expanded water cooling for datacenters IBM researchers are counting on a 40-year-old technology to keep modern, state-of-the-art datacenters running cool and allow companies to squeeze more computing power from the electricity they consume. February 5, 5:23 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Blade server shootout: Dell vs. HP vs. Sun Dawn broke over Diamondhead on Oahu as I shrugged off my jetlag and drove to the Advanced Network Computing Lab at the University of Hawaii. It was a beautiful Saturday morning, but there was to be no lying on the beach today. By the time 6 p.m. rolled around, Brian Chee and I had uncrated half a dozen huge shipping containers; eaten more than our share of sushi; installed three out of four blade chassis; broken four drill bits, one window pane, and a coffee press; and Brian’s eyebrow had finally stopped bleeding from a brief but violent altercation with the business end of L6-20 plug. January 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun releases new blade, subscription service Hoping to make inroads in the high-growth blade segment of the server market, Sun Microsystems has released a new blade along with a U.S. subscription service offering customers several automatic refreshes of the server hardware. January 9, 8:52 a.m. PST Videoconferencing: A call for action When my oldest niece was 2 years old, she had — as all kids do — a favorite expression: “see ‘em.” If there were chicks incubating in a box at the farm, she wanted to “see ‘em.” If there were treats in the cupboard, she wanted to “see ‘em.” December 15, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM aims security bundle, new blade at telecom space IBM is looking to increase its business with telecommunications operators with the unveiling of products, including a security bundle and a blade server, specially tailored to their needs. December 4, 8:24 a.m. PST HP takes workstations out from under the desk Financial traders at a London company wear shorts to work because heat from workstations under their desks is so bad. Hewlett-Packard has invented technology to take the workstations out from under the desks and replace them with blade-style computers tucked away in a separate datacenter. November 30, 4:37 a.m. PST Hot, cramped times ahead for datacenters The forecast for datacenters isn't good for the short term: they're going to get hotter and a lot more cramped, according to Gartner analysts. November 20, 9:44 a.m. PST HP brings its quad-core servers to market Tuesday's debut of Intel quad-core-powered computers from Hewlett-Packard completes the introduction of quad-core hardware from major computer and server manufacturers. November 14, 4:41 a.m. PST IBM unveils servers running Intel quad-core chips IBM is joining the chorus of server manufacturers launching systems running on Intel quad-core Xeon processors. November 10, 4:08 a.m. PST Dell puts quad-core processors in servers, workstations Dell will begin shipping its first servers and workstations running quad-core Intel processors in a two-socket configuration next week. November 8, 5:01 a.m. PST HP offers cluster computing on Windows Hewlett-Packard's cluster computing products can now run a Microsoft cluster operating system, which should be helpful to end-users familiar with the ubiquitous Windows operating system. November 3, 4:29 a.m. PST Exclusive: BladeFrame EX slices, dices, dazzles What happens when you take a blade chassis and remove the disk, NICs, HBAs, and state from the blades? You get the Egenera BladeFrame EX. At first glance, the BladeFrame EX appears to be a standard datacenter rack populated with 1U servers, and a few larger units near the middle. When you take a peek around the back, however, there’s no nest of Ethernet, FC (Fibre Channel), KVM, and power cables; and there are only a few Ethernet and fiber-optic cables coming from the front of the rack. So what gives? October 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT confronts the datacenter power crisis When David Young told his colocation provider late last year that his online applications startup, Joyent, planned to add 10 servers to its 150-system datacenter, he received a rude awakening. The local power utility in Southern California wouldn’t be able to provide the additional electricity needed. Joyent’s upgrade would have to wait. October 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT State: We have evidence to charge HP execs A day after Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) chairman Patricia Dunn promised to step down for her role in a spy scandal, the state of California is continuing to investigate the actions of HP officials and the private investigators they used. September 13, 4:14 p.m. PDT IBM's first Cell computer goes on sale IBM has started selling the first computer based on its multicore Cell processor, targeting organizations that run compute-intensive tasks like medical imaging or oil exploration. September 13, 8:35 a.m. PDT Sun releases new servers and workstations Sun Microsystems on Wednesday announced new additions to its server and workstation lines with the Sun Fire And Sun Ultra, the company said in a statement. September 13, 4:18 a.m. PDT Michael Dell defends his CEO In the wake of Dell Inc.'s disclosure Monday that it might have to restate recent earnings statements because of discoveries made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), company founder and chairman Michael Dell has defended his embattled chief executive, Kevin Rollins. September 12, 9:59 a.m. PDT Dell may have to restate earnings Dell Inc. has delayed filing its quarterly earnings report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and may have to restate past earnings statements, the company said Monday. September 11, 9:22 a.m. PDT Q2 blade server sales jump 61 percent Blade server shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) jumped by a healthy 61.4 percent in the second quarter, helping the server market overall to increase by a steady 9 percent, according to new Gartner research. August 25, 5:25 a.m. PDT Intel soon to launch Tulsa server chip Intel Corp. will unveil its "Tulsa" chip for multiprocessor servers Aug. 29, finally talking publicly about a chip it has been shipping to vendors for several weeks now. August 23, 1:48 p.m. PDT Sun gets boost from new server share report Sun Microsystems has rebounded in the server market, according to new numbers for the second quarter of this year released today. August 23, 4:28 a.m. PDT Sun pushes new Galaxy, blade servers When Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim made a triumphant return to the company, his first major act was to introduce a new line of Opteron-based Galaxy servers that earned a thumbs-up from many quarters, including the InfoWorld Test Center. This week brings news of Bechtolsheim’s next big production: the Sun Fire X4500 and X4600 servers, plus the company’s first enterprise-class blade server. July 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT ClearCube challenges HP with new PC blades ClearCube Technology plans to launch two PC blade servers Monday, in a bid to compete with Hewlett-Packard for customers in finance, insurance, hospitals, and the military. June 26, 4:43 a.m. PDT HP banks on next-generation blade architecture Hewlett-Packard (HP) unveiled its next-generation blade server architecture on Wednesday with new features designed to ease data center challenges such as systems management and power and cooling. June 14, 12:43 p.m. PDT Walden invests $100M in blade server growth A venture capital firm is shelling out up to $100 million to drive worldwide growth of blade server computing, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. June 9, 9:34 a.m. PDT Wall Street Beat: Chips take a dip IT investors this week were worried about the big chip makers, as the Nasdaq stock exchange remains well below the year's opening level. June 8, 2:20 p.m. PDT Fujitsu Siemens blade servers unite SAP and Windows Businesses that seek greater flexibility in running software from SAP and Microsoft together on their blade servers could be interested in new hardware from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. May 31, 9:18 a.m. PDT HP, IBM ready servers with Xeon chips Hewlett-Packard and IBM are poised to launch new servers based on Intel's latest dual-core Xeon processors. May 23, 8:34 a.m. PDT Product previews IBM primes x86 servers for consolidation IBM announced a new line of Intel x86 server hardware called System x that is designed to deliver enterprise class virtualization capabilities for server consolidation. IBM also unveiled the Consolidation Discovery and Analysis Tool (CDAT), software that scans the network for under-utilized servers and helps identify opportunities to consolidate and virtualize x86 systems. Three new models -- System x3950, System x3850, System x3800 -- will be available this month. System x3950, System x3850, System x3800, IBM May 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product Previews Symantec unifies anti-spam and mail security Tightening the integration between brightmail anti-spam and the company’s content security technologies, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 — announced last week and due in May — will proactively protect against both inbound and outbound e-mail threats. The product introduces more extensive content filtering capabilities and zero-day virus prevention, and mitigates threats such as phishing and spyware using Sender Policy Framework and Sender ID. Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0, Symantec April 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP eases Linux management on blades Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday rolled out software aimed to simplify the management of its BladeSystem blade servers running Linux, said the company. April 19, 7:35 a.m. PDT Blade.org expands ranks, launches security tools Citing growing membership in its Blade.org organization, IBM touted on Monday new security tools developed by group members for BladeCenter servers. April 17, 1:30 p.m. PDT Sun unwraps blade for telecoms Sun Microsystems Inc. launched a new family of blade servers Wednesday, offering telecommunications customers a choice of processors between Sun's own UltraSparc or Opteron from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. April 5, 10:11 a.m. PDT Cray to unite scalar, vector computer architectures Cray Inc. plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four different types of processing capability in a blade server architecture. The platform will run Linux on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron processors, and should be on the market by 2010, a spokesman said Monday. March 20, 9:58 a.m. PST Product Previews Fujitsu unveils eight-socket server blade Fujitsu last week announced an eight-socket server blade based on dual-core AMD Opteron processors. Taking up a good chunk of a Primergy BX600 chassis -- which otherwise supports as many as 10 two-socket blades or five four-socket blades -- the Primergy BX630 can be installed alongside one or two other blades running AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors. The eight-socket BX630 blades will be available in the second quarter of this year, priced at less than $36,000. Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX Server operating systems are supported. Primergy BX630, Fujitsu Computer Systems March 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Low power is future for high-powered servers The electricity consumed by a server over its lifetime is likely to cost as much as the server itself if energy costs continue to rise, according to one analyst. That should make energy efficiency a key concern for data center managers -- and its a concern that server vendors are increasingly addressing. March 15, 4:19 a.m. PST Fujitsu extends Opteron-based blades In an effort to extend its blade servers to handle more demanding database applications, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. Tuesday said its Primergy BX630 blade servers can now be linked together into an eight-socket system. March 14, 4:29 a.m. PST HP plots an effective e-mail archiving grid Security, scalability, and performance are the most obvious factors to consider when choosing an e-mail archiving system for your company. To be well prepared for responding to litigation or audits from regulatory bodies, you want a well-protected system that can quickly extract relevant messages from the millions or billions you’ve archived. March 3, 3:00 a.m. PST Dell adds Cisco connectivity to blades Dell said Thursday that it will allow its blade servers to connect to network switching technology from Cisco Systems, matching a feature already available from the two leaders in the blade server market, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. February 16, 11:21 a.m. PST IBM unveils new BladeCenter chassis, blades IBM Corp. Wednesday rolled out a new BladeCenter chassis and several blade servers, including a blade based on the Cell processor IBM is developing with Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. that is used in Sony's PlayStation game console. February 8, 12:50 p.m. PST IBM close to launching revamped blades IBM Corp. is drawing closer to releasing a new chassis for its blade servers, with an announcement possible as early as next week when the company is set to stage a major hardware launch in New York Feb. 8. February 1, 9:35 a.m. PST IBM making more blade moves in retail space IBM unveiled a server, storage, networking, and software bundle based on its BladeCenter servers targeting the retail market Monday. Known as the Systems Solutions for Retail Stores, the bundle follows similar packages IBM has already announced for the banking industry and small to midsize businesses. January 17, 6:09 a.m. PST Forrester index finds US tech sector healthy for now The U.S. technology industry has recovered from a recession of 2001 and 2002 and is about as healthy as it's been in three years, according to a new tech sector economic index released Monday. December 12, 9:49 a.m. PST Scaling your applications to 64-bit computing At Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in April 2005, Bill Gates predicted that 64-bit hardware, operating systems, and software would “transform the way we work and play.” Systems using 64-bit processors would be mainstream by the end of 2006, he said, and 64-bit computing at the server level would happen more quickly than any other platform changeover in the past. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Egenera adds Solaris support to BladeFrame servers Egenera announced its BladeFrame x86 blade servers now support Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 operating system. The company made the move in response to customer requests, according to a Thursday press release. November 17, 8:14 a.m. PST Is it time to scrap your Big Iron? See correction at end of article November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST When mainframes make sense Not everyone sees the mainframe as a relic of the past. In 1996, motor manufacturer Baldor Electric, beguiled by promises of lower costs and the desire to move to the SAP platform for all its CRM and ERP transactions, left the mainframe in favor of a Windows environment. According to Mark Shackelford, Baldor's IS director, the company was very unhappy with the results. November 17, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM, ClearCube to extend relationship IBM and blade PC and software vendor ClearCube Technology are expanding their existing three-year relationship to include a hardware and software bundle aimed at the banking industry, according to executives at the two companies. Due to be announced Monday, the bundle will enable financial services and bank branches to provide a virtualized desktop to their end-users as a way to simplify and cut the cost of IT support. November 14, 4:35 a.m. PST HP turns to AMD for new blade PCs Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is expected to release an update to its blade PC product on Monday, switching to Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) processors for its alternative to traditional desktop PCs. November 7, 4:44 a.m. PST What's wrong with Dell? Dell’s run as the financial darling of the technology world may have come to an end, as the company announced last week it would miss its quarterly revenue target for the second straight period. The company blamed a shortfall in its U.S. consumer business and its U.K. operations, but competition around the world and a changing market may also be dragging Dell back down to earth. November 7, 3:00 a.m. PST HP brings Unix to blades with Itanium Hewlett-Packard is expected on Tuesday to unveil its first blade server based on Intel's Itanium 2 processor, allowing customers to run HP-UX on one of the company's blade servers for the first time. November 1, 4:30 a.m. PST IBM inks deal with VMware for virtual desktops IBM will announce today a deal with VMware to create the IBM Virtualized Hosted Client. October 19, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM, Mercury team up on Cell-based blade server IBM and Mercury Computer Systems plan to ship a blade server using the multicore Cell processor designed exclusively for IBM's BladeCenter rack system, the companies announced Thursday. October 6, 6:20 a.m. PDT The industry cools down Like the pull of gravity on distant stars and planets, which scientists say may someday lead to a reversal of the big bang, the Wintel architecture that spawned a thousand rivals is suddenly pulling everything back into its orbit. October 4, 4:00 a.m. PDT HP to buy blade management expert RLX Hewlett-Packard is to buy RLX Technologies as a way to provide better systems management for HP blades running Linux, the company announced Monday. The deal is part of HP's strategy to plug holes in its enterprise management product portfolio via acquisition. October 3, 8:18 a.m. PDT New low-power chip company to debut in October A highly regarded group of chip designers is preparing to unveil a new company next month that will focus on designing low-power chips for blade servers and portable devices. September 30, 3:39 a.m. PDT Dell talks up multicore servers, workstations Dell has added multicore technology to its single-core dual-socket servers and workstations, the company announced Monday. Dell claims the new systems provide a maximum improvement in performance of 53 percent compared with the single-core, dual-socket machines they supersede. September 27, 4:03 a.m. PDT Fujitsu Siemens to sell Egenera blade servers European computer manufacturer Fujitsu Siemens Computers has forged an alliance with Egenera to become the sole provider of the U.S. company's blade servers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, the companies announced Wednesday. September 14, 5:54 a.m. PDT Behemoth vs. blade Generally, you can expect a giant to triumph over a platoon of munchkins. Maybe that’s why enterprises continue to favor hulking, eight-way servers over blades. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT HP to resell Emulex HBAs with its blades Hewlett-Packard Co. is reselling Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) from storage networking company Emulex Corp. across its entire family of blade servers, the two companies announced Monday. As users adopt the smaller form factor servers, they are increasingly interested in attaching their blades to SANs (storage area networks), according to both firms. August 14, 9:01 p.m. PDT HP to offer per-chassis blade licensing SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Red Hat Inc. have found a way to simplify the software license management in blade servers: charge by the chassis, rather than by the blade server itself. August 8, 11:51 p.m. PDT Penguin adds new 64-bit BladeRunners Linux hardware and clustering company Penguin Computing is releasing two new blade servers in its BladeRunner family, the 4130 and the 4140, based on 64-bit chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, respectively. Penguin will be showing off the blades at the LinuxWorld show taking place in San Francisco from Monday to Thursday. August 3, 7:58 a.m. PDT Encompass responds to demise of HP World, Interex Hewlett-Packard user group Encompass is expecting more attendees for the inaugural technical conference it's co-sponsoring in September in the wake of this week's cancellation of rival show HP World. July 20, 7:54 a.m. PDT Building the intelligent network The days of the fat, dumb pipe, are over. Servers applications, and storage have been shouldering the intelligence and security burden for too long. It’s time for the network infrastructure itself to add some smarts. After all, when it comes to intelligence, the real beauty of the network is that it touches everything. July 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Lenovo to resell ClearCube blade PCs Lenovo Group will offer ClearCube's PC blade systems to its customers, partners and distributors in the U.S., executives from both companies are expected to announce Monday. July 10, 9:02 p.m. PDT Dell fills out blade connectivity, more to come Dell is to unveil an additional connectivity option for its blade server Tuesday, according to a company executive. Dell also expects to announce further connectivity plug-ins shortly as part of the company's ongoing strategy to reposition blades as general purpose servers. June 30, 1:30 p.m. PDT IBM brings PowerPC blade to telecom system June 7, 5:05 a.m. PDT News briefs IBM Offers Blades with Express Line IBM unveiled a product that combines the company’s blade servers with its Express line of applications. The BladeCenter Business Express, aimed primarily at midsize companies, is designed to allow users to build more integrated and customized systems and solutions that can literally be snapped into existing IT infrastructures as users’ computing requirements change. May 23, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM worker's day of action off to a slow start A worldwide day of action by IBM workers and unions in protest over the company's planned job cuts got off to a slow start with no reported action at company facilities in Asia-Pacific as of late morning. May 23, 4:04 a.m. PDT IBM, Nortel to collaborate on telecom products Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement with IBM to jointly develop networking products for the telecommunications industry. The agreement, signed Thursday, will initially focus on the development of carrier-grade servers for communications providers that will be based on IBM's BladeCenter server design. May 20, 4:39 a.m. PDT IBM bundles blades with Express applications Describing it as a "Lego-like" approach to building on-demand IT systems, IBM on Tuesday unveiled a product that combines the company's blade servers bundled with its Express line of applications. May 17, 5:00 a.m. PDT IBM now selling Opteron blade IBM has quietly begun taking orders for its first ultra-thin "blade" server to be based on Advanced Micro Devices's (AMD) Opteron microprocessor. Called the AMD Opteron LS20, the server is based on IBM's BladeCenter design and will be available with a special low-power version of the Opteron. May 9, 4:37 p.m. PDT IBM will mine Blue Gene technology for BladeCenter IBM is looking into ways it can leverage its Blue Gene supercomputer within the company's BladeCenter line of ultra-thin blade servers, a company executive has confirmed. April 25, 6:36 a.m. PDT > Hardware > Server hardware > Platforms > Server hardware |
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