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 ...

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 flexible data center of the future is emerging in many enterprises as data center managers try to turn the hype of “on-demand” or “utility” computing into reality. A flexible data center ...

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 ...

Blade manufacturers have spent significant amounts of money marketing the technology, so either that marketing has fallen on deaf ears or solution providers are just not ready to embrace the ...

New to the market, the super-slim machines cut a dashing figure, but though they dominate the agenda, even they can't dispel the gloom in the sector overall. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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 ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Hewlett-Packard unveiled a design for its blade servers Wednesday that will let people cram up to 16 separate servers or storage devices into a 17-inch box. The HP BladeSystem ...