HP Rolls Out Enhanced ‘All-in-One’ Storage System for SMBseWeek – The company hasn’t had a new product for the high-end market since last October, when it introduced a high-performance blade server and ultra-high-speed gateway for enterprise storage systems. In February, the company introduced its StorageWorks Related items Cray Now Offering $200,000 Supercomputer Transforming the...
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Hitachi goes Terabyte with business driveTechWorld – Hard disk drive market analysts at Baird report that Seagate is seeing strong adoption of its 2.5-inch enterprise drives, and see strong customer demand, reflected by strong OEM demand on Seagate, for fast drives that fit into the blade server form Related items Cray Now Offering $200,000...
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IBM gives peek at blade workstationComputerworld Singapore – The blade server market is healthy, too. Revenue grew by 18.2 percent and shipments grew 16.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006, compared to the year-earlier quarter, according to IDC. HP was the blade server revenue market leader with a 41.9 Related items Cray Now...
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Business Tech >> StorageCNET News – Hard drive maker plans to unveil a new line of pocket-size portable storage devices at the Consumer Electronics Show next week. Hewlett-Packard is adding a storage module to its blade chassis, letting as much as 876GB be attached to a single blade Related items Cray Now Offering $200,000...
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SGI Scientific Workflow Solutions With Strategic Software Vendors PR Inside – As a focus SGI Channel Partner, RCH offers a comprehensive line of blade server, clustering, storage, storage area network (SAN) network attached storage (NAS), grid computing, virtualization, system maintenance and asset management solutions Related items Cray Now Offering $200,000 Supercomputer Transforming the server...
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Dell Claims Rack Servers Better Than Blades Information Week – Dell’s stance on rack servers doesn’t surprise IDC server analyst Jed Scaramella, who notes that Dell’s lack of blade business is insignificant since the company has traditionally found it hard to compete with HP and IBM’s blade server products. Related items Cray Now Offering...
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Citrix To Offer Desktop Virtualization Information Week – An end user can be assigned a blade server in the data center to substitute for a powerful PC, with IT staffers maintaining the blade; or the user can get upgraded application services via Desktop Server’s Windows Terminal Services option. Through this Related items Cray Now...
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IBM Begins Production of 65-nm Cell ProcessorsTop Tech News – Apart from the PlayStation 3, the Cell chip’s other main use right now is in a Blade server manufactured by IBM. Brandow said that the manufacturer is also working with Mercury Computer Systems to incorporate the Cell into technology that requires Related items Cray...
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Storage and ServersNetwork Computing – A friend of mine IMed me a link to Digg the other day congratulating me on getting voted to the front page. Curious, I checked it out and I was found out it wasn’t directly to my article, but to a forum post on Linuxquestions.org. The server business Related...
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Company or Topic: Hewlett PackardCNET News – Hewlett-Packard is expanding its blade server storage offerings and making it easier for new SAN customers to implement storage networking technology. HP Tweaking Server, Mobile PC Channel Programs ( CRN ) – Sunday, October 22, 2006 Related items Cray Now Offering $200,000 Supercomputer Transforming the server market...
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IBM’s 65nm Cell Could Chip Away PS3 CostsTechNewsWorld – While IBM is marketing a Blade server built around the Cell processor, Reynolds does not expect to see the chip in a standard PC because of the difficulty associated with combining the Cell technology and other chips. “It has eight processors inside Related items Cray...
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SGI selects Neterion’s latest 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters for serversNetwork World Fusion – The Altix series ranges from a dense blade server, to a supercomputing platform for high-performance computing (HPC), to a midrange blade server with dual-core processors, to an entry-level server that can scale to support Related items Cray Now Offering $200,000 Supercomputer...
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Dave Driggers, CTO, VerariInternetNews.com – Using a vertical cooling technique made possible by employing perforated tiles under the blade server rack, Verari claims it can provide up to 25 percent more power efficiency and can require up to 50 percent less cooling than blades from IBM, HP Related items Cray Now Offering $200,000 Supercomputer...
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