In a marriage between two hot server technologies, IBM announced at the Server Blade Summit yesterday that it will bundle evaluation copies of VMWare’s virtual infrastructure into its eServer ...

At the Ft Lauderdale, Fla., software company's annual conference, Citrix executives said the set of Trinity technologies due to be delivered in the first quarter of 2007 will enable customers to have ...

After spending the past few years on the sidelines, IBM Wednesday jumped headlong into the blade PC market, announcing partnerships with Citrix and VMware to provide users with the means to manage ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s safe to say we’re past the hype when it comes to blade servers. Today, blade servers are a reasonable option for organizations that want to make efficient use of their data center space. But with ...

Virtual machines have been common in mainframes for decades. Now they’re gaining ground as a way to more efficiently configure Windows and Linux blade servers. A virtual machine is software that lets ...

Looking at a server refresh in the next year or so of our VMware virtual environment. Currently running on HP DL380p Gen 8/9 servers and need to decide whether to replace with more rack mounted ...

Vendor hype is prevalent regarding grid computing, server consolidation, virtual machines, and server blades. Some of these concepts have been tried and tested, while others are still only vendor ...