IBM is betting that when it comes to blade servers, more really is more. The company is set to announce Thursday that it will begin shipping a new high-performance blade server, called eServer ...

Big Blue unveils a prototype of a new high-end, compact server that will include a version of its Power processor. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

In a marriage between two hot server technologies, IBM announced at the Server Blade Summit yesterday that it will bundle evaluation copies of VMWare’s virtual infrastructure into its eServer ...

Adding blades to what IBM calls its "bid certification" program may protect solution providers' margins, but the process can take too long, said Joe Vaught, COO of PCPC, an IBM business partner in ...

The new system, the IBM Virtualized Hosted Client Infrastructure, was announced in October at VMworld 2005 in Las Vegas. It pairs an IBM xSeries or BladeCenter server with preintegrated versions of ...

Hoping to accelerate the acceptance of blade servers, IBM and Intel on Thursday will lay bare their jointly developed technical specifications for its BladeCenter platform that will allow developers ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — IBM Corp. unsheathed its first homegrown design for server blades today (Sept. 24), taking a big-iron approach to dense data center servers. By sliding more and faster processors, ...

IBM is adding new models to its server lineup that feature lower-wattage processors and flash memory instead of disks, all in the name of energy conservation. IBM calls the new BladeCenter blade and ...

IBM on Wednesday announced a four-processor blade server, a Xeon processor-based model much slimmer than that offered by rival Hewlett-Packard. The HS40, with four 2.8GHz Xeon MP chips and a memory ...

IBM last week started shipping its first blade server based on the Cell Broadband Engine. The IBM BladeCenter QS20, which will become a part of an IBM-developed supercomputer cluster, is designed for ...

IBM Corp. intends to make its blade servers more attractive to small to midsize business (SMB) customers and help its business partners target those users. Sam Palmisano, IBM chairman, CEO and ...