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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

I've seen some debate about blade servers versus standard architecture server systems for virtualization but there are no definitive answers from any of the so-called experts. I can see the arguments ...

The growth of the Internet has triggered an explosion in demand for front-end servers demanding more space and power. The result will be a huge boost in demand for the new generation of slim, low-cost ...

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 ...

Data centres are bulging at the seams. As organisations have grown, they have added more servers to deal with the extra workload. The net result is that data centres have become difficult to manage ...

Hewlett-Packard announces a new, thinner blade server--a system that will enable customers to stack twice as many of the dual-processor machines into the same space. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...