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Dell Announces Blade Refresh and NIC Partitioning (NPAR)

By On April 5, 2011 · 16 Comments

Dell announced today a refresh of the PowerEdge M910 blade server based on the Intel Xeon E7 processor.  The M910 is a full-height blade that can hold 512GB of RAM across 32 DIMMs.   The refreshed M910 blade server will also feature Dell’s FlexMem bridge that enables users to use all 32 DIMM slots with only 2 CPUs.  You can read more [...]

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(UPDATED) Prize Fight: IBM MAX5 vs Dell FlexMem Bridge

By On May 21, 2010 · 26 Comments

Updated 5/24/2010 – I’ve received some comments about expandability and I’ve received a correction about the speed of Dell’s memory, so I’ve updated this post.  You’ll find the corrections / additions below in GREEN.

Since I’ve received a lot of comments from my post on the Dell FlexMem Bridge technology, I thought I would  do an [...]

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Dell FlexMem Bridge Helps Save 50% on Virtualization Licensing

By On May 19, 2010 · 46 Comments

Let’s face it.  Virtualization is everywhere.  

Odds are there is something virtualized in your data center.  If not, it soon will be.  As more workloads become virtualized, chances are you are going to run out of “capacity” on your virtualization host.  When a host’s capacity is exhausted, 99% of the time it is because [...]

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Dell M910 Blade Server – Based on the Nehalem EX

By On March 30, 2010 · 17 Comments

Dell appears to be first to the market today with complete details on their Nehalem EX blade server, the PowerEdge M910. Based on the Nehalem EX technology (aka Intel Xeon 7500 Chipset), the server offers quite a lot of horsepower in a small, full-height blade server footprint.

Some details about the server:

uses [...]

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