After months of speculation, Cisco on Monday officially staked its claim to the blade server market, unveiling a server offering as part of its Unified Computing System, an architecture the San Jose, ...

Cisco CEO John Chambers will unveil on Monday a new “unified computing” initiative which analysts said includes a blade server codenamed California. The purpose of the product is to manage and ...

Barb Goldworm is the founder and president of Focus Consulting, a research and consulting firm in Boulder, Colo., that concentrates on systems and storage. She also is the conference chair of the ...

Blade Networks' 1U RackSwitch line of Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches is designed to perform server virtualization within the network Blade Network Technologies, the datacenter server-switch ...

Naysayers want to see UCS fail, claiming San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco has no place in the server market and should leave the data center to the incumbents, like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. But Cisco, ...

Three years ago I stopped by the Server Blade Summit in San Jose. It was a pretty small event and mostly vendor-attended at that time. Blades were still trying to shake their negative image of being ...