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.
Test Report: Power Efficiency Comparison of Dell and Cisco High Memory Capacity Blade Servers
Posted in Cisco, Dell, Performance, Power on Apr 30th, 2012
Dell recently published a new whitepaper that compares the performance and power efficiency of four of the Dell PowerEdge M710HD and M620 blades vs. four of the Cisco B250 M2 blade servers. Here is a summary of the key findings:
IBM Announces New Blade Server – HS23
Posted in IBM on Mar 28th, 2012
IBM officially announced their new blade, the HS23 blade server, and it comes with some improvement.
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 [...]
HP Announces Proliant BL460c Gen 8 Blade Server
Posted in HP on Mar 9th, 2012
HP launched the new ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade but you would have never known about it. With the prelaunch work done it February it seemed like a non event. The bulk of the goodness on the Gen 8 updates are across the ProLiant family so I will try to keep my focus on those that pertain to the BL460c.
Dell’s PowerEdge M620 Blade Server Offering Up to 768GB RAM
Posted in Dell on Mar 6th, 2012
(UPDATED 3/7/12) With the launch of Intel’s Xeon E5-2600 processor, Dell revealed the details of the new PowerEdge M620 blade server. Offering an industry first 24 memory DIMMs in a half-height form factor, the M620 offers up to 768GB of RAM along side the newly announced Intel E5-2600. The Dell PowerEdge M620 also comes with [...]
IDC Reports Q4 2011 Shows Continued Blade Server Growth
Posted in IDC on Feb 28th, 2012
The International Data Corporation’s (IDC) released their Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker today covering Q4 2011. Despite a 7.2% decrease in the worldwide server factory revenue, the blade market continued to experience growth in 4Q11 with factory revenue increasing 8.3% year over year. Other key facts from the IDC press release:
Dell Announces New Blade Server – M620
Posted in Dell on Feb 27th, 2012
In anticipation of Intel’s upcoming E5-2600 CPU (aka Sandy Bridge) announcement, Dell officially announced the 12th Generation of PowerEdge servers today. Although the specifics of the 12th Generation, or “12G”, servers have not yet been released, it is very clear there will be a new blade server added to the Dell PowerEdge portfolio: the M620. While [...]
Where Did Blade Servers Come From?
Posted in History on Feb 21st, 2012
As I mentioned yesterday, one of my fellow bloggers, Stephen Foskett, is writing a series on blade servers. His latest post reveals the history of the blade server. Stephen’s article challenged me to do some research of my own – and here’s what I found. Apparently the first “official” patent for a server on blade [...]