From the monthly archives: August 2012

How VMware’s Announcements Will Impact Blade Servers

By On August 29, 2012 · 22 Comments

As we near the end of VMworld, I thought I would take some time to highlight a couple of announcements that could impact the way people use blade servers with VMware vSphere.

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IDC Worldwide Server Tracker for Q2 2012 Shows Blades Continue to Grow

By On August 28, 2012 · 3 Comments

IDC came out with their Q2 2012 worldwide server market revenue report on August 28, 2012 which shows that a 4.3% drop in server revenues worldwide, marking the third straight quarter of decline.

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Performance Results – HP BL660c vs Dell M820

By On August 16, 2012 · 5 Comments

A few days ago I compared the HP ProLiant BL660c blade server with the Dell PowerEdge M820, so today I wanted to point you to some performance data.  Brian Basset, a Performance Engineer within Dell’s Solutions Performance Analysis group, recently ran some SPEC benchmarks on both the HP BL660c and the Dell M820 and the results were interesting.  In summary:

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HP BL660c vs Dell M820 – A Comparison

By On August 14, 2012 · 7 Comments

If you are a recurring reader to this blog, you’ll know that I work for Dell (1 year as of August 15) which makes me a bit bias toward Dell.  However, with the recent announcements of 4 socket blade servers based on Intel’s E5-4600 processor by HP and Dell, I thought it would be interesting [...]

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Deploying the Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 Blade Storage

By On August 1, 2012 · 8 Comments

Today I came across a newly published a video that showcases the Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 storage blade.  If you are not familiar with the EqualLogic PS-M4110 storage blade,

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