I recently was asked, am I seeing server vendors exiting the blade server market? If so, what are they selling in place of blades? Honestly, I was surprised by the question. The only whisper of any exits from the blade market were stirred up last year with the rumors of Cisco exiting. I address that in this post, but I wanted to see if there was any validity into what was being asked, so I dug around. I was surprised by what I found. Continue reading
Tag Archives: blade server
What We Can Expect for Blade Servers in 2022
As we look into the new year, there are some things I think we can expect to see in the blade server market. Here are a few things I think we’ll see in 2022.
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Why Should You Consider Dell’s PowerEdge MX Blade Server?
As an Enterprise sales server technologist for Dell Technologies, one of the questions I get quite often is “why should I consider PowerEdge MX?” It is a great question especially since all of the top blade server vendor offerings have their advantages. In this post, I’ll share my thoughts on the top 3 key differentiators the PowerEdge MX blade portfolio has to offer.
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Cisco (Probably) Isn’t Getting Out of the Blade Server Business
A recent blog post on Blocksandfiles.com is sparking concerns around the future of Cisco’s rack and server business. Are they on their way out, or is this just a bump in the road. Here are my thoughts. Continue reading
Dell Technologies Adds Telemetry and OIDC Support to Blade Chassis
Dell Technologies released telemetry for blade servers earlier this year in the form of the iDRAC Datacenter license. In July, telemetry capabilities were extended to the chassis. Here are the details. Continue reading
Are Multi-Node Systems a Better Option Than Blade Servers?
Lately I’ve been having discussions around “futures” with customers and one topic continues to be over ongoing interest. What will blade servers look like with the expectations of CPU TDPs continuing to increase? Looking into the future, it’s very clear that CPUs are going to create an obstacle for blade server users. TDPs are going to grow to the point where “air cooling” may not be sufficient for all workloads. This will force blade server users to make a choice. Continue reading
A Review of Blade Server Market Share
Every quarter IDC publishes market data for blade server vendors. In the past I’ve only covered the top 4 main stream vendors, Cisco, Dell Technologies, HPE and Lenovo. However, I recently came upon IDC’s full list of blade server vendors so I thought it would be good to share.
It’s About Time Cisco – A Look At the Cisco UCS X9508 and UCS x210c M6
Well, it’s about fracken time, Cisco! Today Cisco finally announced information about their next generation UCS chassis. Here’s what you’re going to want to know. Continue reading
Are We Nearing the End of Blade Servers?
The future points toward higher wattage CPUs. Does this point to an end for blade servers? In this blog post, I’ll examine some real world power examples that may give us a clue. Continue reading
HPE Announces New Blade Server – Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus
In the midst of the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor launch and the slew of blade server announcements, HPE quietly announced their next edition to the HPE Synergy family – the Synergy 480 Gen10 Plus. Here’s what we know. Continue reading