Nosing around IBM's Power6 blade
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Six years coming IBM has teased with scant details of its long-awaited updates to AIX and its Power6-based blade server line â but today the specs have dribbled out of Big Blue at last.â¦
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IBM&#39;s business workhorse notebook gets a fingerprint reader and an upgraded suite of security tools. We take a first look. IBM&#39;s &#39;thin-and-light&#39; ThinkPad T42 already offers one of the most complete security solutions available on a notebook.
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Put it on your desk. We dare you IBM later this year plans to dish out a "desktop" blade box for small- to medium-sized businesses.â¦
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Boston-Power is about to uncover its long-awaited Sonata battery, which it says is less likely to blow up. HP appears interested.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.&#39;s announcement that its new PowerNow technology will be available on its Opteron line of processors could mean a lot to some enterprise customers.
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Moving IBM's high-end Power chip family into blades will mean an expansion of BladeSystem abilities and market.
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Dell on Monday&#160;added a new series of blade products to its PowerEdge server line, expanding its presence in a market dominated by rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.The PowerEdge M-Series of blades includes the fastest-performing and most power-efficient blade servers the company has, said Mike Roberts, senior product planning manager for Dell.The PowerEdge M1000E, a 10U enclosure, will support the new Intel-based PowerEdge M600 and Advanced Micro Devices-based PowerEdge M605 blade servers, also announced Monday.The M1000E enclosure supports a range of network connectivity options, including modules for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand connectivity. The enclosure allows customers to upgrade or stack up on network hardware to boost networking speed.The PowerEdge M600 blade server is a dual-socket server that supports up to two quad-core Intel Xeon processors, including processors in the Xeon 5400 series running at up to 3.16GHz. The dual-socket PowerEdge M605 servers support dual-core Opteron 2000 series processors running at up to 3GHz. Both blades support Windows Server 2003 and Linux OSes.Targeted at data centers, the PowerEdge M1000E enclosure is priced at $5,999, and the blades start at $1,849. The products will be available worldwide starting Monday.Dell&#39;s OpenManage systems management technology, which will be bundled with the blades, includes energy management tools. Capabilities include real-time power reporting and the ability to set power usage by blade.Power efficiency in blade servers is an important consideration for those looking to upgrade data centers, said Richard Doherty, cofounder and director of Envisioneering Group. Energy costs have become a big factor in considering hardware for data centers, and companies are taking a closer look at reducing their carbon footprints, Doherty said.&quot;Going greener can be a reason for an upgrade,&quot; Doherty said.The new blade server gives Dell an opportunity to catch up with HP and IBM blade products, especially in small data centers, Doherty said. Dell&#39;s PowerEdge M-Series will compete with IBM&#39;s BladeCenter H and HP&#39;s BladeSystem c-Class blades.In addition, the new blade servers will need strong management tools in order to succeed, Doherty said. Dell in the past has announced service and support initiatives that haven&#39;t panned out, and the company&#39;s OpenManage system management tools are not as strong as autonomic computing offerings from HP and IBM, Doherty said.System management is a big concern for data centers, and customers are looking for the ability to manage systems without the need for additional IT engineers, Doherty said.
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IBM has added biometric security to its ThinkPad notebook line, claiming the technology is now ready for prime time. IBM has added a fingerprint scanner to its T42 ThinkPad
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IBM has launched an alliance with 14 other companies to make Big Blue&#39;s Power processor more adaptable and widely used. The partnership, called Power.
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IBM announced yesterday it has officially begun production of the 65nm version of the revolutionary successor to the Power CPU, which now powers some BladeCenter servers and, of course, Sony's PlayStation 3. To lower power consumption while at the same time reducing current leakage, IBM found itself adopting a novel approach, as the company itself shamelessly admitted.
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IBM has unveiled today a new POWER5 system, the eServer i5 550, aimed at mid-sized businesses. The eServer i5 550 features a new Solution Edition, an offering now available with select software vendors. The new eServer i5 also delivers new capabilities ...
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IBM is trying to capitalize on the growing blade server market. Although it generates less revenue than other areas of the server market, the blade segment is increasing in volume and value to vendors, according to IDC analyst Jean Bozman.
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When IBM gave a sneak peek at its new Cell microprocessor this week, it was short on specifics about what it calls a supercomputer on a chip. But details are leaking out thanks to a recent patent awarded to IBM and Big Blue's own disclosures for an upcoming conference.
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IBM today opened up its trim blade hardware architecture in a move to entice third-party hardware makers to support the BladeCenter platform.
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Not so much a Cold War, more a Cooling War The server performance battle has shifted to power dissipation. HP now claims not that its latest blade servers run database benchmarks or whatever faster than IBM, but that they put out less heat and require less airflow, thanks to "zoned cooling" and "thermal logic".â¦
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If you haven&#39;t already, check out Tom Yager&#39;s IBM&#39;s Power5 worth a second look, first posted on MacCentral on December 22nd.
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IBM has formed an industry consortium, called Power.org, to open up the process of building Power processors. Power.org is intended to give IBM&#39;s partners better access to the Power technology so that they