Making blade servers simple
Posted in Cisco on Jan 31st, 2011
Over the past several months, there has been a lot of discussions about how 2011 is the year Cisco will become a leader in the blade server space. There’s no doubt that there are a lot of customers who have moved to UCS, but in reality there are a few other things that Cisco will [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2011
Over the past several years, I’ve run across some things that the blade manufacturer’s won’t easily tell you. Today, I reveal some of those secrets.
Posted in Dell on Jan 27th, 2011
Dell recently notified me the latest version – ver 3.1 - of the Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) added multi-chassis management capability. In other words, you can have one IP address to manage multiple chassis. Now you may ask, so what? Other vendors have had this feature already, so what’s the big deal. Here’s what’s big [...]
Posted in Dell on Jan 26th, 2011
Updated 1/27/2011 Dell quietly announced the addition of a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switch module, known as the M8428-k. This blade module advertises 600 ns low-latency, wire-speed, 10GbE performance, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switching, and low-latency 8 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) switching and connectivity.
Posted in Cisco, Dell, Gartner, HP, IBM, Market Analysis on Jan 21st, 2011
Technology analyst, Gartner, released their Magic Quadrant focused specifically on blade servers this week and the results were not very surprising.
Posted in IDC on Jan 20th, 2011
As I’m anxiously awaiting the Q4 2010 IDC blade server market share results from IDC (due out around the week of Feb 28, 2011), I figured I’d take a risk and see if I can trend what the results may be. Here’s what I found.
Posted in Intel on Jan 17th, 2011
It’s no surprise that Intel will be release a few new lines of CPUs this year, but in today’s post I thought I’d take a few minutes to highlight some of the details.
A reader recently commented on my article about HP’s new 32GB DIMM, “At $8039 per DIMM, HP can support 384GB in a BL460c at the cost of $96,000 per server just for the memory! If you filled just one rack with these servers, you would spend $6 million just for the memory. And the memory [...]
Posted in Cisco on Jan 13th, 2011
A recent article by SearchDataCenter.com titled Top Ten Data Center Trends of 2011, predicts that Cisco UCS blade servers will grab mega market share and inspires more converged infrastructure products.
Posted in HP on Jan 12th, 2011
HP announced on Tuesday two new products to their blade server portfolio, however blade server fanatics, don’t get too excited.