Three of the Big Four blade server vendors — Dell, HP, and Sun (minus no-show IBM) — presented their latest and greatest blade server products for our careful inspection.

If blade servers are to become the revolutionary IT tool they are touted to be, system vendors must deliver a new generation of management tools, and software vendors have to rework their ...

The cost of blade servers Also, the cost of blades as compared to traditional servers can be pretty close. Savings come when energy costs are factored into the equation, Tease says. Prices for the ...

InteleNet, a managed service provider, has 500 blade servers split between its main facility in Irvine, which it owns, and another facility in Phoenix. Stein just completed “a significant power ...

This requires a huge amount of data processing, but a blade server using the nine-core Cell chip is well equipped to handle such a workload, according to Utz Bacher, team leader for IBM's Linux on ...

IBM last week started shipping its first blade server based on the Cell Broadband Engine. The IBM BladeCenter QS20, which will become a part of an IBM-developed supercomputer cluster, is designed ...