Tag Archives: Cisco

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Can You Run GPUs on Blade Servers?

In the past, a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) was equated to a workload that was designing something, like building automobiles.  However, over the past few years, organizations have realized that GPUs have more value than utilization in Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML).  In fact, a large majority of recent GPU adoption revolved around utilization of GPUs with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).   As we look at a “modular infrastructure” (aka blade server) environments, having multiple servers within a small footprint is ideal for VDI.  In today’s blog post, I’m going to review what each blade server vendor offers for GPU options. Continue reading →