From the monthly archives: June 2012

4 Socket Blade Server–Which Intel CPU Do You Choose?

By On June 27, 2012 · 28 Comments

UPDATED 7.10.12

Now that Intel has released the 4 socket Sandy Bridge CPU, known as the Intel Xeon E5-4600, how do you know whether you need this processor or the Intel E7-4800 CPU?  This is becoming a common question as more and more people migrate larger sized workloads to 4 socket x86 systems [...]

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Is This The End of AMD?

By On June 27, 2012 · 14 Comments

It is no surprise that AMD is losing the battle of the x86 server market in the datacenter, but I had no idea their market share was as low as it appears.  Even in the blade server space, you may notice that only a couple of server manufacturers offer AMD now.  A [...]

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Dell Announces Their First Storage Blade: PS-M4110

By On June 11, 2012 · 20 Comments

Today at the Dell Storage Forum in Boston, Dell announced their first ever storage blade -  known as the “EqualLogic PS-M4110 Blade Array”.  This new addition to the Dell storage and blade portfolio will provide a fully-virtualized storage, server and networking solution within a single blade chassis.

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Dell Unveils ARM-based Server Ecosystem

By On June 1, 2012 · 12 Comments

Until today, I’ve not discussed modular hybrid server platforms like Dell’s PowerEdge C platform or HP’s ProLiant SL Servers because I personally do not think they should be classified as a “blade server.”  Perhaps I’m old school, but in order to qualify as a blade server, there must be 1) shared infrastructure [...]

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