Today IBM announced two new blade servers using Intel Xeon E5-2400 (Sandy Bridge-EN) processors.
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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.
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:
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 [...]
Q3 2011 IDC Worldwide – Steady as She Goes
Posted in Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, IDC, Market Analysis on Dec 1st, 2011
Hot off the presses is the latest IDC worldwide server market revenue report for Q3 2011. The gist of the report is that while some of the numbers are slightly adjusted, really not much has changed in the blade server market. Revenue growth for the entire server market (all servers, not just blade servers) slowed considerably [...]
IBM Offers FREE Blade Chassis Through December (No Purchase Required)
Posted in IBM on Jul 13th, 2011
IBM once again is promoting is striving to increase market share by offering customers the chance to get a “free” IBM BladeCenter chassis. The last time they promoted a free chassis was in November, so this year they kicked in the promo effective July 5, 2011. The promotion is for a free chassis – without any purchase, however [...]
If you are like me, you are constantly referring to manufacture web sites for product specs, available options, etc. Today, I’ve put together a list of web sites that will help streamline your search. Since links change and new ones get added, I’ve put out a “helpful links” tab at the top of my blog [...]
Cisco Finally Releases UCS Market Share Numbers
Posted in Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, IDC, Market Analysis on May 24th, 2011
May 24, 2011 - IDC came out with their 1Q 2011 worldwide server market revenue report today showing that Cisco has finally entered the market standings with a 3rd place standing at 9.4% factory revenue share . IDC’s findings also showed that both HP and IBM decreased their blade server market share from Q4 2010.
UPDATED 11:30 a.m. EST (4/6/11) - Intel announced today the next version of their 4 socket chipset, known as “E7”. Previously known with the codename of Westmere EX, the newly released Xeon 7600 will be rebranded as the Intel Xeon E7.
When I go to San Francisco, I head over to the west side of town to peer through the closed gates of the hidden campus of Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) dreaming of catching a glimpse of the magic. Recently Arik Hesseldahl, from All Things Digital, accomplished my dream and had a peek behind the curtains [...]