Is Your Next Small Business Server a Blade Server? Remember Don Johnson’s cell phone on Miami Vice? Mobile devices have certainly gotten a lot smaller since then. The same thing has happened with ...

Blade servers have been touted for some time as a solution that can improve server management and cut costs, and organizations are increasingly calling on blade technology to deliver on those promises ...

1. Late 2000: Small vendors such as RLX Technologies introduced single-processor blade servers for large Internet data centers. The blades featured high density and low-voltage chips designed for ...

With the convergence of telecom/datacom switching centers and traditional LAN and Internet-based data centers, a distributed server architecture based on “blades” is emerging. Traditionally, a server ...

Many small businesses with larger server needs are turning to blade servers to pack big power into a small space. But what exactly is a blade server, and how do you know if it’s right for your small ...

Dell's announcement last week about its future enterprise strategy was a preview of what's ahead for the entire server industry. At the tony Pierre Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Dell unveiled, ...

Blade servers are handy things, medium and large frames into which vendors can stuff numerous blades. Within such a server each blade performs either as an independent server or works in concert with ...

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA– If attendance at their flagship trade show is any indication, blade servers have made their mark on the hardware scene. The Server Blade Summit held this week inSan Jose, ...

Barb Goldworm is the founder and president of Focus Consulting, a research and consulting firm in Boulder, Colo., that concentrates on systems and storage. She also is the conference chair of the ...

Dell's PowerEdge C6220 squeezes four two-socket servers into 2RU, delivering blade server density at a rack-mount price Part of Dell’s server business is building custom machines for very large ...

Bets on boost from high-end PowerPC in debuting BladeCenter and from unusual Cell chip in future servers to keep its edge. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors ...