The company, which is trailing some competitors to the market with super-thin "blade" servers, will begin to catch up when it releases its products in the second half of the year. Stephen Shankland ...

Dell Computer wants a cut of the blade-server market. The company, in a press conference Wednesday morning in New York, announced a new blade-server line, dubbed PowerEdge 1655MC, along with ...

Many small businesses with larger server needs are turning to blade servers to pack big power into a small space. But what exactly is a blade server, and how do you know if it’s right for your small ...

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 ...

"The product [c3000] is fairly new, but we've sold a couple of dozen, which is 100 or so odd servers," said Brady Flaherty, a principal in Altos Technology Group, a Sacramento, Calif.-based ...

If thin client, then why not thin server as well? Actually, there's no question about it. Thin servers--or rather "blade servers" as this ultra-thin, sometimes server-on-a-board technology has been ...

Despite the beginnings of an economic turnaround, corporate IT spending in 2003 did not pick up as fast as the electronics industry would have liked. One bright spot, however, was the rate at which ...

A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack ...

Last time, we mentioned some of the values blade servers deliver – limited impact on floor space, device consolidation and centralized management. But the overwhelming majority of server blades are ...

According to sources, the San Jose, Calif.-based networking behemoth is readying blade servers, code-named California, for a release early next year. A blade server offering would pit Cisco in direct ...

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA– If attendance at their flagship trade show is any indication, blade servers have made their mark on the hardware scene. The Server Blade Summit held this week inSan Jose, ...

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 ...