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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 Army says. [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 produced by the blades is restricted to the computer room... [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 businesses are still of... [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 kind of virtualisation is... [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 blades? Blades are essentially standardised components you can... [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 potential of blade technology. [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 blades from HP, means all the processing... [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 very secure "sandbox". [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 opportunity to look at what we could do with the... [18 May 2006]
PC Blades Enable Cinergy to Outsource Work and Maintain Strong Security
White Paper CCI consists of a client access tier; a compute tier with racks of PC blades inside a data center; and a resource tier that includes mass storage, network printers, application servers and other networked resources, all inside the data center. [07 Feb 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 living room that sounds like a 747 jumbo jet. [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 of this it has now rolled out around 150 PC... [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, everything changes, all is moving and only three... [13 May 2005]
Lackland Air Force Base
White Paper The HQ AFSFC replaced the desktop systems throughout the organization with ClearCube PC Blades, the majority of which are used for processing classified information on a secure network. The Center, an Air Staff Forward Operating Agency (FOA... [16 Nov 2004]
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 in software revenue per PC or $7bn. [18 Mar 2004]
