Making blade servers simple
Posted in IBM on Mar 4th, 2010
A few weeks ago, IBM and Emulex announced a new blade server adapter for the IBM BladeCenter and IBM System x line, called the “Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter" (IBM part # 49Y4235). Frequent readers may recall that I had a "so what" attitude when I blogged about it in October and that [...]
Posted in IBM on Mar 2nd, 2010
(UPDATED 11:29 AM EST 3/2/2010) IBM announced today the BladeCenter® HX5 – their first 4 socket blade since the HS41 blade server. IBM calls the HX5 “a scalable, high-performance blade server with unprecedented compute and memory performance, and flexibility ideal for compute and memory-intensive enterprise workloads.” The HX5 will have the ability to be coupled [...]
Posted in IBM on Mar 2nd, 2010
UPDATED: 3/2/2010 at 12:58 PM EST Author’s Note: I’m stretching outside of my “blades” theme today so I can capture the entire eX5 messaging. Finally, all the hype is over. IBM announced today the next evolution of their “Enterprise x-Architecture”, also known as eX5. Why eX5? Simple: e=Enterprise X=x-Architecture 5=fifth generation. IBM’s Enterprise x-Architecture has been [...]
Posted in IBM on Mar 1st, 2010
Not Disclosing: pricing, performance, model, Intel specifics nor configuration pricing