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Comment on Cisco, IBM and HP Update Blade Portfolio with Westmere Processor by Kevin Houston

Kevin Houston — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:50:59 +0000

Link to IBM.com pricing for the HS22 blade servers with Xeon 5600:
http://www-304.ibm.com/shop/americas/webapp/wcs...

Comment on Cisco, IBM and HP Update Blade Portfolio with Westmere Processor by elidezman

elidezman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:02:48 +0000

the prices i got from my account manager are very high , i will check it again

looks like you saved us a lot of money .

thanks !

Comment on Cisco, IBM and HP Update Blade Portfolio with Westmere Processor by Kevin Houston

Kevin Houston — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:15:43 +0000

The Xeon 5600 CPUs are actually priced very close to the equivalent Xeon 5500's. With that point, I can't see why ANYONE would want to stay on the 5500's… Thanks for reading.

Comment on Cisco, IBM and HP Update Blade Portfolio with Westmere Processor by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:38:21 +0000

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Comment on Cisco, IBM and HP Update Blade Portfolio with Westmere Processor by elidezman

elidezman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:06:13 +0000

the new processors will be high priced and not sure how they will perform better than 5500 .

waiting for :
1.8 core processors – much more memory
2.G7 from HP for onboard FCoE card

Comment on New IBM Blade Chassis? New Liquid Cooled Blade? by Daniel Bowers

Daniel Bowers — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:59:09 +0000

This Top-50 list for 2009 might save you some counting:
http://www.ificlaims.com/IFI%202009%20patents%2...

Here's one reason a patent award might not indicate a pending product: Years can pass (as you've noted) between an initial filing and a final award by the USPTO. That “cooling of high powered blades” patent was filed in 2004.

And one reason why it could: Patents cost money to file and (now) maintain, at least in the US. That's why tech companies like IBM or HP (disclosure: I work for HP) often “publish” ideas rather than patent them. (That press release I linked also mentions that the USPTO saw the first annual decrease in patent applications, probably because of the economy.)

Comment on New IBM Blade Chassis? New Liquid Cooled Blade? by aaronric

aaronric — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:12:52 +0000

The way I read the summary, this is to prevent someone from bringing a “rogue” blade, or a blade not approved through a change management process, inside a datacenter and plugging it into the chassis. It's an interesting approach to highly secure datacenters, but does not portend a design revelation.
The liquid cooling was something mechanical engineering was looking at a long time ago, maybe 2003 or so.
Storage blade is a product that is on again off again.

Comment on New IBM Blade Chassis? New Liquid Cooled Blade? by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:03:18 +0000

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Comment on New IBM Blade Chassis? New Liquid Cooled Blade? by Kevin Houston

Kevin Houston — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:58:38 +0000

Interesting thought. #IBM 's version of a POD, maybe – that is maintained by IBM services… Thanks for the thoughts, and for reading.

Comment on New IBM Blade Chassis? New Liquid Cooled Blade? by Ewan Leith

Ewan Leith — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:56:32 +0000

The only thing I can imagine is (and it's a bit of an oddity), would be to lock-down blade chassis so you can't just take a pre-configured “hostile” blade with pre-built software, networking, etc, and slide it into an existing blade chassis, where you'd suddenly have power and internal network access.

Of course, the other option is it's a way of letting IBM lock-out non-IBM certified blades from their chassis', “Oh you've not got an IBM security key approved, sorry we can't let your blade talk to our chassis”?