Today IBM announced two new blade servers using Intel Xeon E5-2400 (Sandy Bridge-EN) processors.
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Today, Dell announced the addition of 3 new blade servers to its PowerEdge portfolio – the PowerEdge M820, PowerEdge M520 and the PowerEdge M420. Each server offers a unique addition to the Dell blade server family and will be available soon.
Virtualization Performance on Blade Servers
Posted in Dell, HP, Intel, Performance on Mar 14th, 2012
One of the industry-leading independent technology assessment service firms, Principled Technologies, just updated their site with a ton of white papers covering performance on just about any product or technology. You can check out their website at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/default.htm for the complete list, but I wanted to give you the links to their papers that cover [...]
Intel Announces Sandy Bridge, aka Xeon E5-2600
Posted in Intel on Mar 6th, 2012
Intel announced on Tuesday their next generation of 2 socket CPU – the Intel Xeon E5-2600. Formerly code named, “Sandy Bridge,” the E5-2600 is a follow on to the Intel Xeon 5600 series family and offers a real performance increase. In fact, Intel is boasting performance increases from 43% to 62% (depending on the vendor [...]
A Look at Intel’s Cloud Builders Initiative
Posted in Cisco, Cloud Computing, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel on Aug 3rd, 2011
In case you haven’t heard, “cloud” discussions are here to stay and everyone has their own recommendations for you to start building your cloud environment, but which is best for you? Intel has created the “Intel® Cloud Builders” program aimed at making it easier for you to build, enhance and operate cloud infrastructure.
Intel and Dell recently agreed to provide me with a Dell PowerEdge M610 blade server for me to use in my lab, so I thought I’d take advantage of the opportunity and write-up a review. I’m going to go into further details about the blade server in the following blog post, but here are the high-level [...]
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.
2011 – The Year of the Intel CPU
Posted in Intel on Jan 17th, 2011
It’s no surprise that Intel will be release a few new lines of CPUs this year, but in today’s post I thought I’d take a few minutes to highlight some of the details.
(Updated 4/22/2010 at 2:44 p.m.) IBM officially announced the HX5 on Tuesday, so I’m going to take the liberty to dig a little deeper in providing details on the blade server. I previously provided a high-level overview of the blade server on this post, so now I want to get a little more technical, courtesy [...]
Details on Intel’s Nehalem EX (Xeon 7500 and Xeon 6500)
Posted in Intel on Mar 30th, 2010
Intel is scheduled to “officially” announce today the details of their Nehalem EX CPU platform, although the details have been out for quite a while, however I wanted to highlight some key points. Intel Xeon 7500 Chipset This chipset will be the flagship replacement for the existing Xeon 7400 architecture. Enhancements include: •Nehalem uarchitecture •8-cores [...]