The model, with four 2.8GHz Xeon MP chips and a memory capacity of 16GB, is much slimmer than that offered by rival Hewlett-Packard. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The company, which is trailing some competitors to the market with super-thin "blade" servers, will begin to catch up when it releases its products in the second half of the year. Stephen Shankland ...

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 ...

IT managers with multiple dedicated servers quickly realise that it takes a lot of time and resources to maintain their efficiency, but there is a more systematic approach in moving from rack to blade ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems released a bevy of blade products on Wednesday in an effort to help it better compete in the thick of the market. In all, Sun came out with three new blade servers--its first blade ...

While blade servers can offer tremendous benefits for the data center, early adopters of the technology warn fellow IT implementers to plan very carefully. “The impact on facilities wasn’t considered ...