From the monthly archives: October 2011

Why Blade Servers Will be the Core of Future Data Centers

By On October 25, 2011 · 27 Comments

In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that engineers would be able to double the number of components on a microchip every two years.  Known as Moore’s law, his prediction has come true – processors are continuing to become faster each year while the components are becoming smaller and smaller.  In the footprint of the original ENIAC [...]

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Nutanix Cluster: Disruptive to Blade Server Market?

By On October 18, 2011 · 11 Comments

 

With all that is made of the competition between blade server manufacturers and the growth of the blade server market in general, is there room for another type of condensed computing in the data center? Have we been going about things all wrong with regard to architecture design?

Nutanix thinks so.

Nutanix is a [...]

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Dell Network Daughter Card (NDC) and Network Partitioning (NPAR) Explained

By On October 11, 2011 · 30 Comments

If you are a reader of BladesMadeSimple, you are no stranger to Dell’s Network Daughter Card (NDC), but if it is a new term for you, let me give you the basics. Up until now, blade servers came with network interface cards (NICs) pre-installed as part of the motherboard.  Most servers came standard with Dual-port [...]

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