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HP reports strong third quarter
News Software and servers also helped push up HP's numbers: blades revenue was up 66 per cent, and software revenue increased 29 per cent to $731m this quarter. Notebook sales increased 26 per cent since the same quarter a... [20 Aug 2008]
Photos: US Army's Black Hawk goes high-tech
Photo The rotor system in the M version now uses so-called anhedral blades to generate greater lift and hover capability. And the blades have a wide-cored composite structure to better withstand gunfire, the... [28 Nov 2007]
The A to Z of green IT
News Blades Vendors argue blades are more energy efficient than traditional options. But using blades could also be eco-friendly too. Blade PCs also reduce the office temperature as the heat... [21 Nov 2007]
Desktop PC 'not dead - but changing'
News The traditional desktop PC is not yet doomed - but is going through a transformation, according to HP. While laptops are becoming increasing attractive to consumers and small businesses, the majority of sales to larger... [06 Sep 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Virtualisation is now involved in the most trendy fields in the industry including data centre automation, utility computing, green computing, security, business continuity, blades, grid and SOA. An example of the first... [15 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Blade servers and PCs
Cheat Sheet PC blades are essentially the hardware usually located in a PC tower (CPU, memory and hard disk) but fitted onto a blade that slots into a rack-mounted system. So what's all this about... [24 Jan 2007]
FS embraces blades - beyond the server room
News Anglo-Dutch bank Insinger De Beaufort replaced its ageing desktop computers with PC blades more than a year ago and since then more and more financial organisations have shown an interest in the... [05 Dec 2006]
Blades cool Lloyds TSB trading floor
News HP's ProLiant Blade Workstation package - which is targeted mainly at financial institutions - combines thin-client PCs and ProLiant XW25p workstation blades. The new architecture, utilising the workstation... [04 Dec 2006]
Blades in the running as firms rethink desktop plans
News As a result they are looking to new technologies such as blade PCs - where the hardware is not on the desktop but tucked away in the server room - and PC virtualisation, which allows them to run key applications in a... [07 Sep 2006]
PCs turn to PC blades to improve reliability
Case Study A Welsh police force is using PC blades to increase reliability and security in its communications centre. IT services manager Aled Williams explained: "The new strategy and new building was the... [18 May 2006]
Intel's Otellini announces new chip design
News But Otellini said the new generation of processors would also run well in desktop PCs that would not need a fan to cool them and very thin servers known as blades. You can't have a PC running in your... [24 Aug 2005]
Bank replaces desktops with PC blades
Case Study When Anglo-Dutch private banking group Insinger De Beaufort moved offices it also took the chance to replace its existing desktops with something much more cutting edge: PC blades. Following the success... [30 Jun 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Accelerating society
Comment The vision that sprang to mind was that of a combined harvester with the blades reaping the corn just 3m ahead of me, whilst beyond lies a scene of tranquillity. The blades turn right under my nose,... [13 May 2005]
The secret email the Microsoft VP wrote Buffett
News A PC is just a razor that needs blades and we measure our revenue on the basis of $ per PC," Raikes wrote. In FY96, nearly 50 million PCs were purchased and Microsoft averaged about $140... [18 Mar 2004]
Death of the desktop on the way in three years
News By 2006, blades will replace traditional PC form factors for roughly only 10 per cent of users. Blades will become a commonplace solution implemented primarily in the same places that... [16 Jan 2004]
