Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : blade servers, energy efficiency

A Blade Kill

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:07:00 GMT

In April, SPEC updated their server power benchmark to allow results for blade servers, and now HP has released its first blade result. HP just published a SPECpower_ssj2008 result for the HP BL280c G6 server blade . It's the top score for a blade...(read more)

Did we miss something?

Gary Thome — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:35:00 GMT

Every time a competitor introduces a new major product we can't help but notice they suddenly get very interested in what HP is blogging during the weeks prior to their announcement. Then when they announce, the story is always a big self-congratulatory "we've figured out what the problem is with existing server/blade architectures". The implication being that blades volume adoption is somehow being constrained by the very thing they have. ...(read more)

9 Trends in 2009: What's Hot and What's Not in the Data Center

newtonja — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:30:00 GMT

We can’t let Illuminata, Gartner, IDC and Forrester have all the fun, so we sat down and came up with our own What’s Hot and What’s Not in the Data Center list for 2009. Read on for the top 9 things in '09 plus the runner-ups that just missed the list. If you don't see your hot button in 2009 here, let us here about it!...(read more)

One million and counting

Gary Thome — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:16:00 GMT

1,000,000. One million. 106. No matter how you write it, that is a big number. I’ve never tried to count to one million. But now we have sold our millionth blade server; which is cause for reflection....(read more)