From the monthly archives: January 2013

Best Practices for Using the Dell Force10 MXL in Cisco Nexus Environments

By On January 30, 2013 · 3 Comments

One of the best offerings that Dell has within their blade server I/O portfolio is the Dell Force10 10/40 GbE MXL Switch Module.  You can check out the full details on my earlier blog post, but at a high level, this switch provides 32 x 10GbE ports downstream to the blade servers while offering up to 6 x [...]

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Intel’s Advancements Lead to the Future of the Data Center

By On January 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

A little over a year ago, I wrote an article titled, “Why Blade Servers Will be the Core of Future Data Centers” where I coined the name ”Rackplane” which described the concept of future data centers designed with rack sized systems [...]

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BladesMadeSimple – Year in Review

By On January 4, 2013 · 3 Comments

I’d like to begin 2013 first by saying thank you to you, the reader.  I created BladesMadeSimple.com in October of 2009 with the goal of creating a repository of blade server related material for my own use modeled after Rich Bramley’s virtualization blog, vmetc.com.  About 3 months after creation of the inception, [...]

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