The growth of the Internet has triggered an explosion in demand for front-end servers demanding more space and power. The result will be a huge boost in demand for the new generation of slim, low-cost ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sun last week announced a blade server that the company claims is faster than other blade and rack-mount servers on the market. The Sun Blade X8420 Server Module uses the 4-socket dual core 2.8 GHz ...

A blade system without a load balancer would be like Chicago’s O’Hare without air traffic control. One of the core applications for server blades is to serve as the front end to Web hosting, firewalls ...