The flexible data center of the future is emerging in many enterprises as data center managers try to turn the hype of “on-demand” or “utility” computing into reality. A flexible data center ...

Barb Goldworm is the founder and president of Focus Consulting, a research and consulting firm in Boulder, Colo., that concentrates on systems and storage. She also is the conference chair of the ...

Alex Yost, vice president of IBM's blade group, said he saw customers first begin to adopt blades about five years ago. "Customers were looking for servers that were more compact and integrated and ...

With the convergence of telecom/datacom switching centers and traditional LAN and Internet-based data centers, a distributed server architecture based on “blades” is emerging. Traditionally, a server ...

Dell Computer wants a cut of the blade-server market. The company, in a press conference Wednesday morning in New York, announced a new blade-server line, dubbed PowerEdge 1655MC, along with ...

Looking at a server refresh in the next year or so of our VMware virtual environment. Currently running on HP DL380p Gen 8/9 servers and need to decide whether to replace with more rack mounted ...

Communications chipmaker Broadcom will announce Monday that IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer and Fujitsu-Siemens have incorporated the company's technology in their "blade" servers. Blades are ...