Making blade servers simple
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 [...]
Posted in IBM on Oct 7th, 2010
IBM recently announced the addition of a Brocade Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switch module for the IBM BladeCenter designed to deliver up to 24% savings over traditional 10Gb Ethernet & 8Gb FC setup.
Posted in IBM on Feb 18th, 2010
Okay, I’ll be the first to admit when I’m wrong – or when I provide wrong information. A few days ago, I commented that no one has yet offered the ability to split out Ethernet and Fibre traffic at the chassis level (as opposed to using a top of rack switch.) I quickly found out [...]