Blades Made Simple
Currently viewing the tag: "Nehalem EX"
Thanks to fellow blogger, M. Sean McGee (http://www.mseanmcgee.com/) I was alerted to the fact that Cisco announced on today, Sept. 14, their 13th blade server to the UCS family – the Cisco UCS B230 M1.
This newest addition performs a few tricks that no other vendor has been able to perform.
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 [...]
Intel is scheduled to “officially” announce today the details of their Nehalem EX CPU platform, although the details have been out for quite a while, however I wanted to highlight some key points.
Intel Xeon 7500 Chipset
This chipset will be the flagship replacement for the existing Xeon [...]
IMPORTANT NOTE – I updated this blog post on Feb. 28, 2011 with better details. To view the updated blog post, please go to:
http://bladesmadesimple.com/2011/02/4-socket-blade-servers-density-vendor-comparison-2011/
Original Post (March 10, 2010):
As the Intel Nehalem EX processor is a couple of weeks away, I wonder what impact it will have in the blade server [...]
As I mentioned previously, the next few weeks are going to be filled with new product / technology annoucements. Here’s a list of some dates that you may want to mark on your calendar (and make sure to come back here for details:)
Feb 9 - Big Blue new product announcement (hint: in the BladeCenter family)
[...]
Okay, I can’t hold back any longer – I have more rumours. The next 45 days is going to be an EXTREMELY busy month with Intel announcing their Westmere EP processor, the predecessor to the Nehalem EP CPU and with the announcement of the Nehalem EX CPU, the predecessor to the Xeon 7400 CPU. I’ll post more [...]
The first blade server with the upcoming Intel Nehalem EX processor has finally been unveiled. While it is known that IBM will be releasing a 2 or 4 socket blade server with the Nehalem EX, no other vendor has revealed plans up until now. SGI recently announced they will be offering the Nehelem [...]
By now I’m sure you’ve read, heard or seen Tweeted the announcement that Cisco, EMC and VMware have come together and created the Virtual Computing Environment coalition . So what does this announcement really mean? Here are my thoughts:
Greater Cooperation and Compatibility
Since these 3 top IT giants are working [...]
IBM announced last week they will be launching a new blade server modeled with the upcoming 4 socket Intel Nehalem EX. While details have not yet been provided on this new server, I wanted to provide an estimation of what this server could look like, based on previous IBM models. I’ve [...]
Categories
- AMD (1)
- ARM (1)
- Cisco (54)
- Citrix (1)
- Cloud Computing (1)
- Comdex (1)
- Dell (70)
- Fujitsu (1)
- Future Technologies (9)
- Gartner (3)
- History (4)
- HP (75)
- HPC (2)
- IBM (73)
- IDC (17)
- Intel (13)
- Market Analysis (6)
- Microserver (1)
- Microsoft (1)
- Networking (1)
- News (2)
- Performance (4)
- Power (4)
- Reviews (2)
- Server Comparisons (18)
- Uncategorized (12)
- Virtualization (1)
- VMmark (2)
- VMware (11)
Blogroll
- Absolute Windows – John Obeto
- BladeWatch – Martin Macleod
- GestaltIT – Stephen Foskett
- HP Storage Blog – Calvin Zito
- iKnerd – Greg Knieriemen
- Infosmack Podcasts – Greg Knieriemen
- M. Sean McGee
- Pack Rat – Stephen Foskett
- Storage Nerve – Devang Panchigar
- Tech Virtuoso – Frank Owen
- TechHead – Simon Seagrave
- The Storage Architect – Chris Evans
- VM Etc – Rich Brambley
