If you are wondering what is new about BladesMadeSimple.com besides my recent announcement – the answer is the site’s look. Hopefully you will find the new look easier to navigate than the previous theme, but if you find any issues, please let me know at bladesmadesimple AT gmail.com.
Change is coming to BladesMadeSimple.com. I created this site out of my passion for the blade server technology in late 2009. Over the years, I have worked toward creating a site that can be a repository for blade server news and information. The site has been my hobby and I have put hours of effort [...]
Are you passionate about technology? Do you stay up to date on what’s new in the x86 marketplace, especially blade servers? Do you like to work for free? If so, BladesMadeSimple.com could use you!
This week HP has its annual event, called HP Discover, in Las Vegas. Previously this event was focused on hardware only and was called HP Tech Forum, but this year HP combined hardware and software into one uber event, called HP Discover. If you are familiar with VMware’s VMworld – this event is very similar, [...]
I wanted to take time with today’s post to step outside the world of blade servers and say a few words about Memorial Day. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Memorial Day, it is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May created to commemorate U.S. Service Members who [...]
It’s no surprise, but one of the chip manufacturers will be releasing their next generation of multi-socket CPUs Tuesday. As expected, at least one vendor will be announcing on the same day some blade announcements. SO – check back here on Tuesday (mid-day) to find out what’s new. (no this isn’t an April Fool’s joke)
Over the past several years, I’ve run across some things that the blade manufacturer’s won’t easily tell you. Today, I reveal some of those secrets.
I’m deviating from the norm today to ask you a question: what’s your problem? I ask not in a sarcastic way, but in a serious way. Writing about blade servers is fun, but I’m looking to write up some posts on what problems blade servers, or x86 servers in general, help solve – and I’m looking [...]
I continuously find myself re-visiting the same links to find additional information regarding blade servers, so I finally came up with a revolution: why not consolidate the links and put them on my site? Introducing a new addition to my blog – the “Helpful Links” page. Located at the top of every page, the Helpful [...]
The Washington Post has a nice article today from Logan G. Harbaugh of PC World about blade servers. In the article, Logan takes the discussion of blade servers back to the basics. The piece covers the pro’s and con’s of blade servers as well as some good comparisons between blade and rack servers.
