HP to put blade servers on a diet 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.

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IBM Corp. says its blade servers are “fundamentally better” than Hewlett-Packard Co.’s (HP’s) that are based on energy efficiency, a growing concern of data center operators.

HP will begin offering super-thin "blade" servers with considerably more computing power in coming months, drastically changing the types of jobs the new systems can tackle. HP's blades, inherited ...

HP and IBM together own the majority of the blade-server market, which market research firm IDC expects to grow from about US$2 billion in 2005 to $10 billion by 2009.

Blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM — all three sporting the latest Xeon 5600 (aka Westmere) CPU — arrived at our test facility at the University of Hawaii before Intel had even officially ...