Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : SMB

Pity the "Server Guy"

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:15:00 GMT

My brother-in-law David manages a mid-sized construction business, and owns seven or eight servers to handle the data. But don't bother asking him how much data they hold, or what processors they use. In fact, it's pointless to ask anyone in his...(read more)

New review of HP blades for small sites

newtonja — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:52:00 GMT

Recently, we shipped a BladeSystem c3000 (or 'Shorty' to those in the know), to Dave Mitchell at the IT Pro for a hands-on review. Inside we added the latest virtualization blades, virtual storage with HP LeftHand and some other new gadgets to...(read more)

Shorty gets new threads

newtonja — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:23:00 GMT

My friend and colleague Rob Cashman was at the WW Microsoft Partner Conference last week and snapped this pic of a pimped out Shorty (aka, BladeSystem c3000 ), complete with flames. This was part of a special promotion for Microsoft resellers to learn...(read more)