The name of the game in data centers today is density. With server proliferation a constant problem, information technology departments are always on the hunt for ways to pack more computing power ...

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 ...

According to sources, the San Jose, Calif.-based networking behemoth is readying blade servers, code-named California, for a release early next year. A blade server offering would pit Cisco in direct ...

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 ...

Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here are strictly his own. He's focused on enterprise IT, especially cloud computing. However, Gordon writes about a wide ...

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 ...

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 ...

It used to be you couldn’t coax Apple Computer into breathing a word about enterprise-class computing. When you mentioned selling to the suits, Macintosh marketing folks would get fidgety and flip to ...

Despite the beginnings of an economic turnaround, corporate IT spending in 2003 did not pick up as fast as the electronics industry would have liked. One bright spot, however, was the rate at which ...

Dell Computer wants a cut of the blade-server market. The company, in a press conference Wednesday morning in New York, announced a new blade-server line, dubbed PowerEdge 1655MC, along with ...

With the launch of a four-way Intel server that leverages a system architecture reminiscent of a mainframe, IBM is making a concerted effort to differentiate itself from rivals such as Hewlett-Packard ...