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 ...

Data centres are bulging at the seams. As organisations have grown, they have added more servers to deal with the extra workload. The net result is that data centres have become difficult to manage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 tech giants are joining forces in a multiyear project to design new super-slim "blade" servers, the companies plan to announce Tuesday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Hewlett-Packard is set to deliver a new blade that will quadruple the virtual desktops that can be deployed from one server compared to the company’s previous offerings. The HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8 ...

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 ...

Just call the researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Advanced Computing Laboratory “blade runners.” That’s because the New Mexico-based facility has replaced its conventional parallel ...

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 ...