Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming another enterprise workload that infrastructure teams have to support. Whether it’s AI inference, model fine-tuning, VDI, rendering, or other GPU-intensive applications, organizations need access to powerful GPUs without building an entirely separate server infrastructure. That’s where the new Cisco UCS X580p PCIe Node comes in. Let’s take a look at the new X580p PCIe node. Continue reading
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Cisco UCS XE9305 — Blade Servers Designed for the Modern Edge
Cisco has expanded its blade server lineup with a new platform built specifically for edge environments, where space, power, and simplicity matter. Launched in November 2025, the Cisco UCS XE9305 Chassis and UCS XE130c M8 Compute Node form the backbone of the Cisco Unified Edge solution — a modular, AI-ready, cloud-managed system that brings compute, networking, storage, and security together in a compact blade form factor.
In this post, we’ll break down what this offering is all about and share the key technical details. Continue reading
Xeon 6 CPUs Available Today
I thought it would be interesting to take a quick glance at the latest Intel CPU availability across the current blade server market. The results were quite interesting. Continue reading
Taking a Look at the Newest Blade Server Offerings
I’ll admit—I’ve been holding off on writing about the latest blade server offerings. I wanted to give all the major server vendors time to announce and start shipping their new models. But now that the dust has settled, I’m genuinely surprised by what I’ve found. Continue reading
Intel Xeon CPUs by Blade Server Vendor
The list below is based upon the list of CPUs that each server vendor posts on their respective websites. Please note, in certain cases there may be options to add Intel Xeon CPUs that are not listed in the matrix below via a custom process; check with your server vendors if something is not listed. Continue reading
I Heard A Rumor About Cisco UCS
Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged (apologies) but I have a juicy rumor about Cisco’s blade servers that I think you’ll want to hear. Continue reading
First Look at Cisco’s AMD Blade Server
This week at Cisco Live, Cisco unveiled their first blade server built with an AMD processor. Here is a first look at it. Continue reading
Available 4th Gen Intel Xeon CPUs by Blade Server Vendor
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new. This is partly because blade server news has practically diminished; or I’m just getting really bad at finding “blog-worthy” content. Either way, in this post, I thought it would be helpful to take to post a comparison of CPUs by blade server vendor. Continue reading
Dell PowerEdge MX with Cisco ACI Integration
A few weeks ago, there was a Dell blog post that provided an example of how to integrate Dell’s blade server platform running Dell’s SmartFabric Services with Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI.) Here are some of the key takeaways from that blog post. Continue reading
Cisco Announces UCS X210c M7 and UCS X410c M7 Blade Servers
As expected, I’m starting to see the blade server vendors unveil their next generations of product based in the 4th Generation Intel Xeon SP CPUs. It looks like Cisco was first to announce, as I haven’t seen any other blade server vendor announce. In today’s blog post, I’ll highlight what’s been released about Cisco’s latest announcements. Continue reading