Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here are strictly his own. He's focused on enterprise IT, especially cloud computing. However, Gordon writes about a wide ...

Intel, Veritas and Qlogic last week announced blade server hardware and software. Intel said it would make blade servers – codenamed Hampton E – for distribution by white-box manufacturers and other ...

Many small businesses with larger server needs are turning to blade servers to pack big power into a small space. But what exactly is a blade server, and how do you know if it’s right for your small ...

According to sources, the San Jose, Calif.-based networking behemoth is readying blade servers, code-named California, for a release early next year. A blade server offering would pit Cisco in direct ...

"The product [c3000] is fairly new, but we've sold a couple of dozen, which is 100 or so odd servers," said Brady Flaherty, a principal in Altos Technology Group, a Sacramento, Calif.-based ...

Intel is slinging new chips for blade servers. The chipmaker will introduce on Tuesday a new low-power Pentium III chip for dense blade servers that will let computer makers put two processors onto a ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a suite of compact blade servers today, positioning itself as a leader among large vendors in offering the emerging technology. Blade systems are complete servers on a ...

Dell on Monday added a new series of blade products to its PowerEdge server line, expanding its presence in a market dominated by rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard. The PowerEdge M-Series blades include ...

IBM unveiled a new "blade" server prototype Tuesday that uses its Power processor, putting Big Blue a step ahead in the race to squeeze high-end chips into compact servers. Some of the world's largest ...

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 servers are modular, single-board computers, typically about 7 in. high, 2 in. wide and 19 in. deep. Each blade contains processors, memory, network controllers and other I/O ports; it plugs ...

IBM is betting that when it comes to blade servers, more really is more. The company is set to announce Thursday that it will begin shipping a new high-performance blade server, called eServer ...