Posted in IBM on Mar 2nd, 2010
UPDATED: 3/2/2010 at 12:58 PM EST
Author’s Note: I’m stretching outside of my “blades” theme today so I can capture the entire eX5 messaging.
Finally, all the hype is over. IBM announced today the next evolution of their “Enterprise x-Architecture”, also known as eX5.
Why eX5? Simple: e=Enterprise X=x-Architecture 5=fifth generation.
IBM’s Enterprise x-Architecture has been around for quite a [...]
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Posted in Cisco, HP, VMware on Feb 5th, 2010
Cisco is getting some (more) recognition with their UCS blade server product, as they recently achieved the top position for “8 Core Server” on VMware’s VMmark benchmark tool. VMmark is the industry’s first (and only credible) virtualization benchmark for x86-based computers. According to the VMmark website, the Cisco UCS B200 blade server reached a score of 25.06 @ [...]
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Posted in IBM on Jan 28th, 2010
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave in Eastern Europe, you know by now that the New Orleans Saints are headed to the Super Bowl. According to IBM, this is all due to the Saints having an IBM BladeCenter S running their business. Okay, well, I’m sure there’s other reasons, like having stellar tallent, but [...]
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Posted in HP on Jan 12th, 2010
VMware ESXi v4.0 with VI4, 4CPU, Embedded, Trial, No Subsc, SD,NoMedia
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Posted in HP on Nov 4th, 2009
In the wake of the Cisco, EMC and VMware announcement, HP today is formally announcing the HP Converged Infrastructure. You can take a look at the full details of this design on HP’s Website, but I wanted to try and simplify:
The HP Converged Infrastrcture is comprised of four core areas:
HP Infrastructure Operating Environment
HP FlexFabric
HP Virtual Resource [...]
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Posted in Cisco on Nov 3rd, 2009
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 together, I expect to see greater cooperation between [...]
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Posted in IBM on Oct 22nd, 2009
According to IBM’s System x and BladeCenter x86 Server Blog, the IBM BladeCenter HS22 server has posted the best SPECweb2005 score ever from a blade server. With a SPECweb2005 supermetric score of 75,155, IBM has reached a benchmark seen by no other blade yet to-date. The SPECweb2005 benchmark is designed to be a neutral, equal benchmark [...]
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Posted in IBM on Oct 20th, 2009
Emulex and IBM announced today the availability of a new Emulex expansion card for blade servers that allows for up to 8 virtual nics to be assigned for each physical NIC. The “Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter (IBM part # 49Y4235)” is a CFF-H expansion card is based on industry-standard PCIe architecture and can [...]
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