Making blade servers simple
Posted in Dell on Apr 5th, 2011
Dell announced today a refresh of the PowerEdge M910 blade server based on the Intel Xeon E7 processor. The M910 is a full-height blade that can hold 512GB of RAM across 32 DIMMs. The refreshed M910 blade server will also feature Dell’s FlexMem bridge that enables users to use all 32 DIMM slots with only 2 CPUs. You can read more [...]
UPDATED 11:30 a.m. EST (4/6/11) - Intel announced today the next version of their 4 socket chipset, known as “E7”. Previously known with the codename of Westmere EX, the newly released Xeon 7600 will be rebranded as the Intel Xeon E7.
Posted in Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Server Comparisons on Feb 28th, 2011
Revised with corrections 3/1/2011 10:29 a.m. (EST) Almost a year ago, I wrote an article highlighting the 4 socket blade server offerings. At that time, the offerings were very slim, but over the past 11 months, that blog post has received the most hits, so I figured it’s time to revise the article. In today’s [...]
I was updating a slide deck that I use to compare blade server technologies for customers when I came across the IDC and Gartner data from Q3 of 2009. I was very surprised at what I found out, so today’s post takes a look back at 2009 and compares it to 2010.
Posted in Dell on Jan 27th, 2011
Dell recently notified me the latest version – ver 3.1 - of the Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) added multi-chassis management capability. In other words, you can have one IP address to manage multiple chassis. Now you may ask, so what? Other vendors have had this feature already, so what’s the big deal. Here’s what’s big [...]
Posted in Dell on Jan 26th, 2011
Updated 1/27/2011 Dell quietly announced the addition of a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) switch module, known as the M8428-k. This blade module advertises 600 ns low-latency, wire-speed, 10GbE performance, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switching, and low-latency 8 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) switching and connectivity.
Posted in Cisco, Dell, Gartner, HP, IBM, Market Analysis on Jan 21st, 2011
Technology analyst, Gartner, released their Magic Quadrant focused specifically on blade servers this week and the results were not very surprising.
A reader recently commented on my article about HP’s new 32GB DIMM, “At $8039 per DIMM, HP can support 384GB in a BL460c at the cost of $96,000 per server just for the memory! If you filled just one rack with these servers, you would spend $6 million just for the memory. And the memory [...]
Posted in Dell on Dec 15th, 2010
At the conclusion of a long day in Austin, I decided to take a few minutes to provide some thoughts about what I learned today.
Posted in Dell on Dec 13th, 2010
On Tuesday I have the pleasure of joining a handful of other bloggers in Round Rock, TX, to visit with one of Dell’s top secret societies