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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The tech giants are joining forces in a multiyear project to design new super-slim "blade" servers, the companies plan to announce Tuesday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

There has been a dearth of conveniently packaged servers for the midsize market. HP decided to try to change that with the introduction of the HP BladeSystem c3000. I recently tested a well-equipped ...

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 ...

Dell on Monday added a new series of blade products to its PowerEdge server line, expanding its presence in a market dominated by rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard. The PowerEdge M-Series blades include ...

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 ...