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August 30, 2010  3:10 PM

Can a cloud replace a cluster?



Posted by: Alex Barrett
blade server, DataCenter, private cloud, server virtualization

Do virtualization and private clouds have the oomph to run demanding research workloads that currently run on high performance Linux clusters? Computer scientists want to find out. Carnegie Mellon University is one of the first users of the

June 18, 2009  12:01 AM

Powering up your blade servers: Some interesting numbers



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
blade server, HP BladeSystem

LAS VEGAS -- Today I attended a session at the HP Technology Forum on powering blade servers, and heard some interesting data points on how much system configuration matters to power consumption. Tony Harvey, HP product manager for blade server power and cooling, gave one particularly...


March 17, 2009  5:36 PM

Cisco’s Unified Computing System strategy; smart move?



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
blade server, Cisco Systems, Cisco UCS, Cisco Unified Computing System, Intel Nehalem, Networking, Virtualization, VMware

I tuned in to Cisco's web-based news conference yesterday to hear about their first server platform within the Unified Computing System, and my eyes are still rolling today. Instead of showing off...


February 2, 2009  5:52 PM

NFL’s biggest game supported by IBM’s smallest system



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
blade server, IBM, IBM BladeCenter S, mobil data center, NFL, SuperBowl, virtual machine, VMware

If you watched the Steelers win their sixth Super Bowl last night, everything you heard from the press and all the stats from NFL.com came from


December 3, 2008  5:42 PM

Server sales suffer on economy, virtualization; vendors branching out



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
blade server, Blade servers, data center efficiency, data center services, DataCenter, HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, virtual machines, Virtualization, x86 server

With the U.S. economy in a recession, world economies suffering and virtualization adoption on the rise, it comes as no surprise that factory revenue in the x86 worldwide...


October 15, 2008  6:53 PM

Gartner lists 10 most disruptive technologies of 2009



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
blade server, Blade servers, CIO, cloud computing, data center efficiency, DataCenter, Facebook, Gartner, Green computing, IT Asset management, Virtualization, x86 server

Gartner, Inc. analysts highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2009 during the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held in Orlando through...


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