Many small businesses with larger server needs are turning to blade servers to pack big power into a small space. But what exactly is a blade server, and how do you know if it’s right for your small ...

According to sources, the San Jose, Calif.-based networking behemoth is readying blade servers, code-named California, for a release early next year. A blade server offering would pit Cisco in direct ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a suite of compact blade servers today, positioning itself as a leader among large vendors in offering the emerging technology. Blade systems are complete servers on a ...

A little under 10 years ago, I paid a visit to a Boston hotel suite where Gary Stimac was showing off a new server that his company, RLX Technologies, would soon be announcing. Stimac had been ...

IBM is betting that when it comes to blade servers, more really is more. The company is set to announce Thursday that it will begin shipping a new high-performance blade server, called eServer ...

Blades are usually thought of in terms of slicing-and-dicing, as in knives, or movement, as in fans or propellers. Now, however, the term has taken on new meaning in the computing sphere. Whereas ...

As companies seek to cast server blades as general-purpose servers, they are building out their server blade infrastructures in a similar fashion to traditional server-network-storage connections. HP ...

If thin client, then why not thin server as well? Actually, there's no question about it. Thin servers--or rather "blade servers" as this ultra-thin, sometimes server-on-a-board technology has been ...

Essentially a server built onto a card that plugs into a backplane, this new product allows for greater server density than a traditional rack-mount server. Blade servers enable companies to get more ...

Sun Microsystems, 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. Sun will release two ...

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 ...