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Best Practices for Power and Cooling Blades

Published on July 25, 2011 By Kevin Houston

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. 

IBM BladeCenter H Power Recommendation Reference Document

Published on January 6, 2011 By Kevin Houston

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 [...]

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

Published on October 12, 2009 By Kevin Houston

(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 servers continues to grow, the demand for blades increases.  [...]