Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it. It has been exactly six years since ...

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 ...

Is Your Next Small Business Server a Blade Server? Remember Don Johnson’s cell phone on Miami Vice? Mobile devices have certainly gotten a lot smaller since then. The same thing has happened with ...

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 ...

HP unveiled three new hardware products this week, all part of its Converged Infrastructure portfolio. They include a new blade enclosure, new networking for that enclosure and a new blade server.

The emerging category of blade servers appears to be bifurcating. On the one hand, there are ultrahigh-density server systems, such as RLX Technologies’ System300ex, which crams as many as 24 ...

Big Blue's new BladeCenter S enclosure holds up to six of IBM's Intel-based, AMD-based, or Power-based server blades. It is small enough to sit on a desktop, and plugs into a 110-Volt electrical ...

Tommy Peterson is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology and is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. When F.I.T. Aviation needed a new server ...

Dell on Monday added a new series of blade products to its PowerEdge server line, expanding its presence in a market dominated by rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard. The PowerEdge M-Series blades include ...

The company will offer super-thin "blade" servers with more computing power in coming months, drastically changing the types of jobs the new systems can tackle. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...