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RSS sun blade10 GbE Rising Factors Driving the Emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
White Paper Industry trends such as Chip Multithreading (CMT), multicore CPUs such as CoolThreads, Intel Xeon, and AMD Opteron, blade computing, and virtualization are just a few of the significant advances that have increased datacenter capacity. [05 Jul 2008]
Consolidation Through Virtualisation With Sun x64 Servers
White Paper As this Sun whitepaper explores, the Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blade modular systems powered by AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors let businesses run the Solaris Operating System (OS), Linux or Windows today, and change direction tomorrow. [14 May 2008]
Sun Scales Up Blade System
White Paper Sun boosts the flexibility of blade system by offering SPARC and x86 server blades. This paper talks about blade servers. Although Sun does not offer the fastest x86 or SPARC processors in the current Sun Fire blades, the high density of the B1600... [10 Apr 2008]
Nottingham Building Society to rip and replace systems
News Replaced infrastructure included 14 Sun servers, 2 Sun SANs, a NetApp virtual tape library, 33 IBM branch servers and 53 IBM blade servers. Nottingham Building Society is about to begin final testing of a replacement core system for its loans... [11 Mar 2008]
Informatica Powercenter 8 on Sun's AMD Opteron Processor Blade Servers
White Paper PowerCenter 8 is a single, unified enterprise data integration platform that allows companies and government organizations of all types and sizes to access, discover, and integrate data from virtually any business system, in any format, and... [14 Feb 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News It will be made up of 82 Sun blade racks stuffed with servers, two petabytes of storage, said Fowler. After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week. [14 Feb 2008]
Implementing Sun Solaris on IBM BladeCenter Servers
White Paper It describes how to incorporate the latest patches to Solaris from Sun, plus updated drivers for the Ethernet and RAID devices in the blade servers. Solaris is supported on many of the IMB's blade servers and options, as well as servers in System x... [30 Oct 2007]
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Open Modular Architecture With a Choice of Sun SPARC , Intel Xeon , and AMD Opteron Platforms
White Paper The Participation Age is driving new demands that are focused squarely on capabilities of the datacenter. Web services and rapidly escalating Internet use are driving competitive organizations to lead with innovative new services and scalable... [01 Oct 2007]
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Open Modular Architecture With a Choice of Sun SPARC , Intel Xeon , and AMD Opteron Platforms
White Paper The Participation Age is driving new demands that are focused squarely on capabilities of the datacenter. Web services and rapidly escalating Internet use are driving competitive organizations to lead with innovative new services and scalable... [11 Sep 2007]
Photos: Unearthing the zero-carbon data centre
Photo The Smartbunker houses blade servers and, because it escapes the sun's rays, it also requires less power for cooling purposes during the summer months. The data centre opened for business in June 2007 and currently holds 20 racks of blade servers... [03 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo The modular data centre uses an enclosed cold aisle (pictured) to cool the 210 blade servers contained within each rack. Sun Microsystems will launch its greener and cheaper data offering this year - a data centre in a shipping container. [30 May 2007]
Photos: IBM's flat-pack data centre
Photo The modular data centre can be designed in eight to 12 weeks with 210 blade servers sitting in each rack. Around 2,100 blade servers can fit into the data centre. Scott said a traditional data centre would struggle to house this number of blade... [25 May 2007]
Magma Design Automation Chooses Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solutions
White Paper Magma wanted to replace many of its servers with smaller blade servers that ran on Opteron processors, which tend to run cooler and faster than their Intel counterparts. After much consideration, the company decided to skip over tier one vendors... [04 Apr 2007]
Blades cool Lloyds TSB trading floor
News Speaking at a launch to promote HP's ProLiant Blade Workstation package, Tom Walker, IT director at Lloyds TSB Capital Markets, said overheating is a frequent problem on trading floors due to the computing power required by traders, and the... [04 Dec 2006]
$12.9bn: Server market on the up
News Blade revenue shot up nearly 30 per cent in the third quarter while unit shipments of blade servers went up about 25 per cent. Number four Sun Microsystems also continued to rebound. Sun's server revenue grew 15.8 per cent to $1.3bn. [22 Nov 2006]
