IBM BladeCenter specification picks up speed
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IBM on Friday announced it has signed up 115 companies since early September to develop for its eServer BladeCenter open specification it co-authored with Intel.
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Ziff Davis - Egenera expands the capabilities of its blade servers with greater virtualization and management functionality.
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IBM has introduced the BladeCenter Express, a lower-cost blade server chassis targeted toward small and mid-size businesses. The company also unveiled several new business-in-a-box packages
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Circuitous route to launch Comment IBM has announced its first computing solution based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE), namely the IBM BladeCenter QS20. This solution targets computationally intense workloads such as 3D animation rendering, compression, encryption, and seismic and medical imaging, to help companies create and operate highly visual, immersive, realtime applications.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. will soon begin shipping upgraded models of its HS20 and JS20 blade servers, including a new SCSI (small computer system interface) option for the HS20 that will double the number of SCSI blades that users can fit into a single chassis, the company announced Friday. The Armonk, New York, computer maker also announced new management software for the servers designed to make them cooler and easier to manage.
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With today's expected announcement, hardware vendors will get access to the BladeCenter specifications by signing a seven-page licensing agreement, which grants users the right to license the specifications for certain types of products.
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New products include slightly faster mainstream models and new lower-power server chips.
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Blade servers, generally intended for large data centers, might become more common in smaller businesses, if a new blade system from IBM catches on. Previewed on Wednesday, Big Blue&#39;s BladeCenter S can help to reduce by up to 80 percent the 25 to 45 physical servers that an average midsize company has, according to IBM.
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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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Giving employees, customers and vendors easy-to-use analytics tools that deliver complex reports in real time promises to reshape the business landscape. Learn how SAP deployments running on Dual-core Intel Xeon processor-based blade-server systems provide enterprise-grade business analytics that empower business users and free IT professionals from the chore of running analytics reports.
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To move the blade server market from the enterprise to small and midsize businesses, IBM on Friday unveiled a new BladeCenter chassis and new blade solutions for SMBs.
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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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IBM announced on Friday a lower-cost blade server option--a pared-down chassis geared for small and medium-sized businesses. The new Express version of IBM&#39;s BladeCenter chassis still can accommodate as many
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IBM and Intel have announced that they are to open up the design specifications of their BladeCenter platform. The partners say that the publishing of the specs is intended to enable third parties to design and build compatible kit and grow the market.
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IBM&#39;s decision to free up design specifications for its blade server system has stimulated interest in the tech community. The company said more than 100 companies have embraced the BladeCenter spec to build various hardware products.
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IBM has introduced six new models in its BladeCenter server line, including five new HS20 models and a new JS20 blade server. The Intel-based HS20 systems now are equipped with two new, compact
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The new supercomputer employs a cluster of 2,520 eServer BladeCenter JS20 systems running the Linux operating system and could be the first supercomputer to get a top 10 ranking using blade server technology.