About Us

Founded  in 2009, BladesMadeSimple.com is an independent site designed to provide product information, news and thoughts about blade server technology.  The content is provided by independent contributors. 

Kevin Houston (Twitter: @Kevin_Houston)
Founder of BladesMadeSimple.com, Kevin has over 14 plus years of experience in the x86 server marketplace.  Since 1997 Kevin has worked at several resellers in the Atlanta area, including Solarcom (Presidio), Canvas Systems, Optimus Solutions (Softchoice) and Corus360.  He has a vast array of competitive x86 server knowledge and certifications as well as an in-depth understanding of VMware and Citrix virtualization.    Kevin works for Dell as a Server Sales Engineer covering the Global 500 market. 

Chris Fricke (Twitter: @sysgeekguy)
Chris is a contributor and author for BladesMadeSimple.com and in his day job is a Systems Architect for Clackamas County in Oregon and an HP customer. 

Thales Osterne
Thales has over six years in the IT field with four years of experience in IBM BladeCenter and System X.  When he is not blogging, Thales works as a product manager for IBM System X & Bladecenter at Lanlink Informatica, a major business partner in Brazil.  He is fluent in Portuguese and English.

Dwayne Lessner (Twitter: @dlink7)
Dwayne is a Infrasturucture Specialist working in the Health Care and Energy Sector in Western Canada. He has been in IT for over
10 years, starting off as a Programmer and later moving on to Network Operations. He has a strong interest in storage and compute, but blade servers and VDI have been his focus over the last four years. Dwayne also organizes VMware User groups and other techinal meetings in his local area.  Dwayne has spoke at past BriFourm’s, VMware User Groups meetings & VMware Forum events.  Dwayne also runs http://itbloodpressure.com.

Disclaimer: The views presented in this blog are personal views and may or may not reflect any of the contributors’ employer’s positions. Furthermore, the content is not reviewed, approved or published by any employer.

 

 

  • Paul Montoya

    Can you add a tab for Supremicro Blades (i.e the Twin blade seems to have the edge on CPU, #cores, and memory per 42U rack).

  • Michael Thomas

    There have been a lot of changes in the technology world recently, but no updates from bladesmadesimple.com.  Is there an underlying reason for this site kind of dropping off the grid?