Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it. It has been exactly six years since ...

Blade servers are modular, single-board computers, typically about 7 in. high, 2 in. wide and 19 in. deep. Each blade contains processors, memory, network controllers and other I/O ports; it plugs ...

A blade server, due to its smaller size, will never provide all the functionality of a 1U server, but today’s blades come close. Yes, there are still trade-offs — even the most modern blade servers ...

IT managers with multiple dedicated servers quickly realise that it takes a lot of time and resources to maintain their efficiency, but there is a more systematic approach in moving from rack to blade ...

Blade servers have been touted for some time as a solution that can improve server management and cut costs, and organizations are increasingly calling on blade technology to deliver on those promises ...

Data centres are bulging at the seams. As organisations have grown, they have added more servers to deal with the extra workload. The net result is that data centres have become difficult to manage ...

Goodbye, traditional blade servers. Hello, modular hybrid-blade servers. Increasingly, solution providers are looking to modular data center solutions over a traditional blade/rack server architecture ...

HP unveiled three new hardware products this week, all part of its Converged Infrastructure portfolio. They include a new blade enclosure, new networking for that enclosure and a new blade server.

Is Your Next Small Business Server a Blade Server? Remember Don Johnson’s cell phone on Miami Vice? Mobile devices have certainly gotten a lot smaller since then. The same thing has happened with ...

Dell on Monday unsheathed its first "blade" server in a bid to carve out more market share. As expected, the new PowerEdge 1655MC server--a relatively slender modular machine designed fit into a rack ...

The model, with four 2.8GHz Xeon MP chips and a memory capacity of 16GB, is much slimmer than that offered by rival Hewlett-Packard. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...