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- Blade
- One component in a system that is designed to accept some number of components blades. Blades can be individual servers or clients that plug into a single cabinet or...
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- Dell strives to make it easier to be green with FlexAddress
- In the scheme of green things, Dell's PowerEdge M-Series blades could be described as emerald. Now, the company is trying to make it easier for data center managers to opt for them, with a new patent-pending tool called Dell FlexAddress. Glenn Keels, director, global relationship marketing...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Blade, Data Centers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Blade, Sony Playstation, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, NNSA Supercomputer, Roadrunner, Roadrunner System, Intel Quad-core Blade System, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- MEVA Elite Blade Gaming Screensaver (zip)
- MEVA Products represent a broad range of users. This screen saver gives viewers a feeling of the Elite MEVA Gaming Range. The screen saver opens with a dramatic series of images from various games followed by a set of video sequences from games and MEVA logos. This version is the...
- Tags: Screensaver, Blade, MEVA
- Software downloads 2008-06-13
- Mount & Blade (exe)
- Mount&Blade is a single player PC game that combines action, role-playing and strategy elements in a unique blend. It features one of the most intuitive and fun to play medieval combat systems ever devised, letting you fight on horseback or foot using a great variety of weapons. Playing Mount&Blade, you...
- Tags: Blade, Taleworlds Entertainment, Mount&Blade, Modems, Games, Strategy, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-10
- Blade's "rackonomics" approach to data center cooling
- I love it when companies pitch me because they've been reading this blog and have something that they think one-ups something I've already written about. Thus was the case with Blade Network Technologies, an upstart in the blade networking space working closely with blade giants IBM, NEC and Hewlett-Packard. (Others...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Blade, Switch, Blade Networks, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- HP packs two independent servers on a blade
- HP can now pack two servers one blade and cut energy consumption by 60 percent based on its calculations. HP was set to announce its new blade set-up on Wednesday. The server twofer--dubbed the HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5 right--is the first of its kind and is part...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, BL2x220c G5, Data Centers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Some brief info about Sun's latest shade of green blades and servers
- Sun is using 55-watt Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors to help amp down not a typo its latest Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems. The new models include the Sun Fire X4140 and Sun Fire X4240 (which are being positioned as storage solutions for things like database applications, high-performance computing or...
- Tags: Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Cooper Boone's fan-fueled music (no, not the kind with blades)
- Did you ever think about how much electricity a mega-concert uses to power all those woofers and tweeters, not to mention the jumbo-screens and pyrotechnics? Yes, a lot, no? So, I was inspired by this little item about Cooper Boone, a psychologist-cum-musician who...
- Tags: Blade, Cooper, Music, Cooper Boone, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Don't Go Half Way: Blade Server or Virtual Server = Virtual Storage
- Every CEO and company owner asks two things of their people and vendors: How are you going to save me money and how are you going to make me money? Responding to those two business requirements is the current wave of server architecture changing from rack-based servers to blade...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Blade Server, Blade, Server Architecture, Servers, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-05-08
- BLADE Networks and Network Virtualization
- I don't often get the opportunity to speak with companies offering a different take on network virtualization, a blade networking approach. A week ago, I had a chance to speak with Dan Tuchler, VP of Strategy and Product Management, for BLADE Network Technologies BLADE about network virtualization for blade servers....
- Tags: Network, Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- System builder Super Micro shows green stripes
- I was wondering the other day how the system builder community is faring with the green tech conversation. After all, servers, desktops and notebooks from the so-called white box players account for somewhere around one-third of all systems shipped in a given quarter. At least that's the case in the...
- Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Egenera: New pals for PAN Manager
- I've spoken about Egenera several times in the past and pointed out that it was one of the very earliest players offering blade computers and the related management software. Egenera called this software PAN Processing Area Network manager. PAN manager, at first, was a tool that allowed organizations to orchestrate...
- Tags: Blade, Personal Area Network, Egenera Inc., PAN Manager, Bluetooth, Blade Servers, Servers, Wireless, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Blade Trinity Screensaver (zip)
- Blade Trinity stars Wesley Snipes, the beautiful Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds. The vampires succeed in framing Blade for the killing of a human. Blade is rescued by the Nightstalkers. They are led by Hannibal King, and Abigail Whistler. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Blade, Wallpaper Screensavers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-03-11
- Blade servers: Data centre power and cooling issues
- IT managers need to reduce power consumption in IT infrastructure. Blades servers â€" which provide a more efficient form of computing than traditional servers â€" could provide an answer.Read this white paper to see how technology leaders can reduce power consumption through blades, and what type of power and cooling...
- Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Power Consumption, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-03-03
- Server blade market grew to $1.2 bln in Q4 2007
- Growth in the server blade market accelerated in the Q4 2007, with factory revenue gaining 54.2% YTY and shipments increasing by 35.6% compared to Q4 2006, according to IDC. Overall, bladed servers, including x86, EPIC and RISC blades, accounted for $1.2 bln in Q4 2007, representing 7.8% of quarterly server...
- Tags: Revenue, Blade Server, Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, NB
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Physical to Physical Migration From IBM HS20 Blade to IBM HS21-XM Blade With Windows 2003 Operating System
- This paper details the procedure to perform physical to physical image migration based on Windows 2003 operating system from an HS20 (8843) 2-socket dual core blade to an IBM HS21-XM extended memory 2-socket quad core blade. The PlateSpin PowerConvert's Operating System OS portability technology is used for the migration. The...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 2003, Blade, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Migration, IBM Corp., PlateSpin PowerConvert, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Processors, Hardware, Software, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2008-02-13
- HP ProLiant Server Blade Specification for Microsoft Web Server
- HP offers a full range of hardware - server, networking, and storage - components designed to meet the performance, scalability, availability, and reliability requirements of the Microsoft application infrastructure. HP offers a full suite of ProLiant server blade management tools, which enables to take control of and manage Microsoft application...
- Tags: Web Server, Blade Server, HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Specification, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant, HP ProLiant Server Blade Technology, Blade Servers, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Snap-in, Grid-Based Data Integration: IBM Information Server Blade
- This white paper, authored by IDC, explores the problems confronting IT organizations today as they seek to bring data together from disparate sources in order to achieve better information coherence, operational efficiency, and more effective overall governance. Specifically, the paper considers the problems posed by the complexity...
- Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Server, Grid, Data Integration, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Blades of Heaven (exe)
- Blades of Heaven is a game full of secrets, action, mysteries and twists. Embark on Laura's journey, and face events that will lead to threaten the world. 40H, 8 characters, more than 100 monsters, if you like old school RPG, you shouldn't be disappointed by this game. This version is...
- Tags: Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Games, Servers, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-01-18
- Automation Technology for Virtualized Systems
- There has been a recent trend toward consolidating burgeoning systems onto blade servers in order to optimize IT infrastructures, maximize system investment efficiency, and reduce server power consumption. This trend heightens the demand to increase the efficiency of system integration and operation. Moreover, in line with the increased performance of...
- Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Power Consumption, Fujitsu Ltd., Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
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