Posted in Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Server Comparisons on Mar 10th, 2010
As the Intel Nehalem EX processor is a couple of weeks away, I wonder what impact it will have in the blade server market. I’ve been talking about IBM’s HX5 blade server for several months now, so it is very clear that the blade server vendors will be developing blades that will have some iteration [...]
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Posted in Cisco, Dell, IBM on Jan 1st, 2010
Happy New Year to all of my readers. As we enter a new decade, I wanted to give everyone who takes the time to read a few stats on how I’ve done since my inaugural posting on September 23, 2009. First a bit of a background. My main website is now located at BladesMadeSimple.com, however [...]
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Posted in Dell on Dec 29th, 2009
Looking through my previous posts it would appear that I’m against Dell’s blade server. That’s not the case. The reality is that it is hard to find good technical info on Dell’s product – that is until recently. A search on SwagBucks.com led me to a little-known Dell website, called “Dell TechCenter Wiki“.
The site, located [...]
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Posted in Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, IDC on Dec 3rd, 2009
IDC reported on Wednesday that blade server sales for Q3 2009 returned to quarterly revenue growth with factory revenues increasing 1.2% year over year. However there was a 14.0% year-over-year shipment decline. Overall blade servers accounted for $1.4 billion in Q3 2009 which represented 13.6% of the overall server revenue. Of the top 5 OEM blade manufacturers, IBM [...]
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