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Test Report: Power Efficiency Comparison of Dell and Cisco High Memory Capacity Blade Servers

By On April 30, 2012 · 5 Comments

Dell recently published a new whitepaper that compares the performance and power efficiency of four of the Dell PowerEdge M710HD and M620 blades vs. four of the Cisco B250 M2 blade servers.  Here is a summary of the key findings:

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Best Practices for Power and Cooling Blades

By On July 25, 2011 · 7 Comments

One of the biggest challenges related to blade servers in an existing data center is how to power and cool.  APC wrote a white paper (link below) that explains how to asses the options to best power and cool your blade environment. 

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IBM BladeCenter H Power Recommendation Reference Document

By On January 6, 2011 · 4 Comments

IBM’s BladeCenter H is rich with features, but requires planning before implementing, especially in regards to power.  Over the years, I’ve worked with a lot of customers around the question of what power is needed for the BladeCenter H, so I created a reference document for my use and now I’m sharing it for you [...]

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What Gartner Thinks of Cisco, HP, IBM and Dell (UPDATED)

By On October 12, 2009 · 7 Comments

(UPDATED 10/28/09 with new links to full article)

I received a Tweet from @HPITOps linked to Gartner’s first ever “Magic Quadrant” for blade servers.  The Magic Quadrant is a tool that Gartner put together to help people easily where manufacturers rank, based on certain criteria.  As the success of blade [...]

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