Archive for October, 2010
Dell continues the platform innovation
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/362191/dell-shows-off-its-heavy-metal-server-range Resident head-banger Steve Cassidy visits London’s O2 arena for some seriously heavy metal, but not of the music variety In the back of the 02 stadium (the venue formerly known as the Millennium Dome), there’s a room covered in graffiti scrawled by the famous rock stars who’ve played there, and during the steamiest part [...]
Microsoft Office 365 and what it means, what I’d love it to mean
http://office365.microsoft.com/en-US/online-services.aspx Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products with the latest version of our desktop suite for businesses of all sizes. I love the concept and I wonder what range of technologies are being deployed in order to provide this service. More importantly though, the low cost [...]
Cisco UCS illustrates the business benefits
I was doing some research about UCS over the weekend and found this article talking about how a furniture retailer had chosen Cisco’s UCS, it’s always interesting to read why a customer has chosen a specific platform, what technologies they’ve chosen and how they have perceived it, the article links to a webcast, do check [...]
BLADE Network Technologies furthers the low latency possibilities
http://www.bladenetwork.net/?pageid=1684 SANTA CLARA, CA, October 14, 2010 – BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE), the data center switching company, announced today the RackSwitch G8264™, the first single-chip 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack switch to deliver more than one terabit of low-latency throughput to the data center. BLADE’s delivery of the RackSwitch G8264 marks the first time a [...]
Talking about the new HP SL6500 series solution
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2271047/hp-offer-modular-blade-servers The 4U SL6500 can hold eight blades that can comprise traditional CPUs or general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPUs), offering a mix of general and scientific computation for businesses. The SL-series of servers, which comprises the SL170s and SL390s, are very similar to blade servers that have proved popular in providing high-density computational [...]
IBM to acquire BLADE Network Technologies
http://www.bladenetwork.net/ibm-blade-pr.html ARMONK, N.Y. — 27 Sept. 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE), a privately held company based in Santa Clara, CA. BLADE specializes in software and devices that route data and transactions to and from servers. The acquisition is anticipated to close [...]
IBM extends the possibilities with their Power platform
IT Jungle Last summer, when IBM launched its first CloudBurst virtualized private cloud infrastructure stacks, they were built on its BladeCenter blade servers and used the company’s Xeon-based HS22 blades. Last week, as Big Blue updated the X64 variants of the CloudBurst stacks, it rolled out the first versions of the cloudy infrastructure based on [...]
HP continues the innovation
HP BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 5, 2010 – HP today announced new Converged Infrastructure solutions in networking, security and scalable computing that significantly enhance the delivery of application services to business. — HP is improving the quality of application service in branch offices with a turnkey, all-in-one connectivity solution that eliminates the need for local IT [...]
Recognizing the next generation blade platform
I’ve spent the last few days reading up about HARDCORE’s Liquid Blade solution. It looks very interesting for a number of reasons, as a blade boy in the early days of blade servers, I learned a number of things: Airflow is key in a blade deployment, air should be flowing straight through the blade enclosure [...]
Server refresh strategy question and concepts
Got an email from a small business director of IT asking a question: “We’ve got about 100 servers and we’re talking about instead of having a support contract putting that money towards buying new servers, with that in mind, what’s the oldest DL380 you would keep and what would you get rid of and why? [...]
