Egenera is considered a pioneer in the blade server market, and it's known for incorporating two of today's hottest technologies, blade servers and virtualization. Egenera's BladeFrame line is a blade ...

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 ...

Blades are usually thought of in terms of slicing-and-dicing, as in knives, or movement, as in fans or propellers. Now, however, the term has taken on new meaning in the computing sphere. Whereas ...

After months of speculation, Cisco on Monday officially staked its claim to the blade server market, unveiling a server offering as part of its Unified Computing System, an architecture the San Jose, ...

The change to the BladeCenter S -- making available a new switch module that turns existing direct-attach storage into a storage area network, or SAN -- is fairly minor, but it is major in its ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...

As promised, Cisco this week divulged more details on its Unified Computing System for data centers, including pricing and performance benchmarks. UCS combines networking, blade servers and ...

Compaq Computer's super-thin "blade" servers will begin shipping in early 2002, yet the computer maker plans to focus attention on some software improvements available for the product line. Compaq is ...

As virtualization software continues to evolve, so do the options for network specialists, IT managers, CTOs, and CIOs. In order to help make the best decision for your organization, it’s important to ...