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March 22, 2010

Blade server review: Supermicro SuperBlade

The SuperBlade is an amazingly affordable blade server system, yet it still offers a few frills

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March 22, 2010

Blade server review: Dell PowerEdge M1000e

Dell's M1000e blade system lags HP and IBM in features and options, but hits the mark in performance and price

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March 22, 2010

Blade server review: HP BladeSystem c7000

HP's c7000 blade system is rich in features, options, and performance, but some of the management tools need attention

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March 22, 2010

Blade server review: IBM BladeCenter H

IBM's blade system combines strong performance and solid features, but also lower density and higher cost

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March 22, 2010

Blade server review: Dell, HP, IBM battle for the virtual data center

InfoWorld tests the Intel Westmere-packing Dell PowerEdge M1000e, HP BladeSystem c7000, and IBM BladeCenter H blade server systems

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March 22, 2010

The InfoWorld Westmere blade server shoot-out

Intel's Xeon 5600 -- code-named Westmere -- was just announced, but InfoWorld already has deep benchmarking results on Westmere blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM

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November 10, 2009

How Cisco UCS reinvents the data center

If you could design a blade server system entirely from scratch, it might look a whole lot like Cisco's Unified Computing System

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November 10, 2009

InfoWorld review: Cisco UCS wows

Cisco's Unified Computing System is a more manageable, more scalable, and essentially superior blade server system, despite 1.0 warts

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August 10, 2009

IBM BladeCenter delivers speed, power savings

A virtualization-ready combo of performance, energy efficiency and manageability

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June 17, 2009

Exclusive review: HP BladeSystem Matrix

HP's state-of-the-art blade server system and array of automation tools haven't squeezed all manual labor out of service provisioning, but they show the automated and adaptive datacenter is within reach

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Reviews by Product Type: Blade servers

The SuperBlade is an amazingly affordable blade server system, yet it still offers a few frills

Dell's M1000e blade system lags HP and IBM in features and options, but hits the mark in performance and price

HP's c7000 blade system is rich in features, options, and performance, but some of the management tools need attention

IBM's blade system combines strong performance and solid features, but also lower density and higher cost

InfoWorld tests the Intel Westmere-packing Dell PowerEdge M1000e, HP BladeSystem c7000, and IBM BladeCenter H blade server systems

Intel's Xeon 5600 -- code-named Westmere -- was just announced, but InfoWorld already has deep benchmarking results on Westmere blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM

If you could design a blade server system entirely from scratch, it might look a whole lot like Cisco's Unified Computing System

Cisco's Unified Computing System is a more manageable, more scalable, and essentially superior blade server system, despite 1.0 warts

A virtualization-ready combo of performance, energy efficiency and manageability

HP's state-of-the-art blade server system and array of automation tools haven't squeezed all manual labor out of service provisioning, but they show the automated and adaptive datacenter is within reach

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