Making blade servers simple
Posted in IBM on Nov 15th, 2010
IBM is striving to increase marketshare by offering customers the chance to get a “free” IBM BladeCenter chassis. This is a great promotion that IBM has continued to offer over the past several years.
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 Mar 15th, 2010
Okay, I’ll be the first to admit. I’m a geek. I’m not an uber-geek, but I’m a geek. When things get slow, I like digging around in the U.S. Patent Archives for hints as to what might be coming next in the blade server market place. My latest find uncovered a couple of “interesting” patents [...]
Posted in HP on Feb 15th, 2010
I’ve recently posted some rumours about IBM’s upcoming announcements in their blade server line, now it is time to let you know some rumours I’m hearing about HP. NOTE: this is purely speculation, I have no definitive information from HP so this may be false info. That being said – here we go: Rumour #1: Integration of [...]
Posted in IBM on Nov 18th, 2009
On Thursday, IBM plans to announce its work with university researchers to instantly process data for wildfire prediction — changing the delay time from every six hours to real-time. This will not only help firefighters control the blaze more efficiently, but deliver more informed decisions on public evacuations and health warnings. The new joint project [...]