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NORAD gives thumbs up to blade PCs

errorCheyenne Mountain Air Force Station is in Colorado Springs, Colorado not Wyoming.I'd be interested to knowWhy they didn't go with a terminal services solution. They could put a thin client on the desktop.James

Tags: blade, blade PC, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, hardware, montie@..., North American Aerospace Defense Command, PC, thumbs-up

Discussion threads 2005-04-18

HP offers desktop consolidation strategy using new Blade PC

Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) recently announced its plan to promote its new version of server-based computing. The solution offers enterprises with large numbers of fixed desktops a way to reduce IT costs. Costs are reduced by moving user data to a data center, the user’s actual desktop...

Tags: blade PC, PC, thin client, Michael Jackman, blade, desktop, Hewlett-Packard Co., server, strategy

Technical articles 2004-02-05

HP Thin Client & Blade PC Solutions: Fiona Wright

The presenter of this webcast speaks about the key features of remote client solutions and how they can benefit teachers and students alike.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Blade, Blade PC, Thin Client, Blade Servers, Thin Clients, Servers, Hardware

Webcasts 2007-12-01

Additional Resources

Blade technology could be your best new server solution

Organizations are increasingly turning to blade servers as solutions for better managing their data centers. Find out how blade servers can help you cut costs, save space, and streamline server management.Blade servers have been touted for some time as a solution that can improve server management and cut costs, and...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, Ray Geroski, blade, server, enclosure, blade server

Technical articles 2002-11-06

IDC White Paper - The Tangible Benefits of Blade Clients

Blade clients are rack mounted boards that contain a full PC, including processor, memory, hard drive, graphics, and operating system. IDC interviewed 10 customers using blade solutions for their desktop computing at the end of 2004 and asked respondents to quantify the costs and benefits of using ClearCube blade clients...

Tags: Blade, Benefit, ClearCube Technology, International Data Corp., Blade Client, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2005-02-01

Mount & Blade 1.011 (Windows)

Mount&Blade is a single player PC game that combines action, role-playing and strategy elements in a unique blend. It features one of the most intuitive and fun to play medieval combat systems ever devised, letting you fight on horseback or foot using a great variety of weapons. Playing Mount&Blade, you...

Tags: Blade, Taleworlds Entertainment, Mount&Blade, Games, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2008-11-07

Blade Transfer Services 1.2 (Windows)

Blade Transfer Services is a client / server solution that performs fast and reliable file uploads using HTTPs. Works over the Internet or local networks. Designed for transferring huge files (tested up to 30GB). Features Checkpoint Restart and Pause / Resume / Queue functionality. Resumes the upload even after rebooting...

Tags: Blade, Microsoft Windows, Blade Transfer Services, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-08-30

Lenovo poised to take over IBM's PC biz

Lenovo poised to take over IBM's PC bizarticle rootLenovo poised to take over IBM's PC bizLenovo Group Ltd., China's largest PC manufacturer, may announce as early as today that it is buying control of IBM's PC-making business for up to $2 billion, according to a source familiar with the situation....

Tags: biz, IBM Corp., IBM PC, IBM PC biz, Lenovo Group Ltd., Newsletter Editor, PC

Discussion threads 2004-12-07

Will Mac Mini spur petite-PC revolution?

Will Mac Mini spur petite-PC revolution?article rootWill Mac Mini spur petite-PC revolution?Rival PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard are hoping that the success of Apple's Mac Mini will spark consumer interest in smaller desktops. A mini PC movement would elevate the importance of design as a factor in a model's success...

Tags: Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Newsletter Editor, PC, petite-PC, petite-PC revolution

Discussion threads 2005-01-27

"Big Iron" better than blade systems....

In a recent article on ITWorld Canada's site, they state that "People issues" tilt the evaluation of the hardware architecture in favour of mainframe systems.The example they use is a Privatised toll highway, with electrinoc tolls only, no toll booths.http://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-3ed0dc7f-cc4f-4d78-a992-353b563b4fc5Even though the mainframes are using the same processors, the blade...

Tags: blade, blade system, blades, Jaqui, Linux, mainframe, mainframes, servers, thin client, windows

Discussion threads 2005-12-18

Gateway PC Boot Problems

I have been working on a Gateway PC for the last few days, and I am completely out of ideas. It started as what I thought being a HDD going bad - swapped it out with a new one, installed Windows 2000. No problems until I shut it...

Tags: CPU, Gateway Inc., Gateway PC, KLK, PC, power supply

Q&A 2004-11-15

New PC No Longer Boots Up

I built a new pc which appeared to work fine. I knocked the desk the computer was on, the pc cut out and now the PC does not start at all.I press the power button on the case and there are no lights and no fans at all. The motherboard...

Tags: dan_macgregor@..., Good PS, motherboard, Peek Value, knock

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Extreme water-cooled PC

ooops...cant wait to burst a water line and watch the fireworks begin :)Water cooledThe military uses water cooling in the vacuumtube final amplifiers for their radars. Thewater out of neccesity must be pure (demineralized, de-ionized and chilled to 40 degrees F.) and circulated at a high enough rate...

Tags: firework, hardware, humor, PC, themainframeisback

Discussion threads 2005-11-11

Desktop Management: Make The Case

Welcome to the PDF version of ZDNet UK's Intel-sponsored Desktop Management special report. Here, we present an overview of the key issues facing IT managers, examine the blade PC market and ask how quickly, if ever, Windows Vista will establish itself on the corporate desktop.

Tags: Desktop Management, Blade Servers, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2007-08-01

Air Force base CIO finds an alternative to PCs and thin clients

Based on a pilot implementation, an Air Force CIO estimates that his IT department could save as much as $400,000 a year by gradually replacing conventional PCs with rack-based CPUs.Each year, the IT department at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, Utah, replaces one third of its PCs with new...

Tags: Blade servers, Desktops, Utility computing, Servers, Suzanne Thornberry, thin client, Air Force, Timothy Ohrenberger, blade, PC, ClearCube Technology, ClearCubes, desktop

Technical articles 2002-09-17

The Myth of Scalable Technology Solutions

For a long time, I and most people on the planet have seemed to realize that consumer/home PC scalability is largely a myth. You certainly CAN upgrade that system just by purchasing a new CPU, removing the old CPU from the ZIF slot designed to make it ever so simple...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, Storage management, Storage, blade, scalability, Dell Computer Corp., enclosure

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Evaluate your hardware solutions for scalability

Scalability, like other networking issues, begins at the physical level. When it's time to buy new hardware, don't look just at the specs of the current configuration, but also take into account whether and how much it can be upgraded to meet future needs. We focus primarily on software...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Servers, Deb Shinder, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Video cards, Terminal services, Disk-space, server, processor, scalability, hardware, memory, video card, SMB Strategies Newsletter, Software, Network, Blade, Storage

Technical articles 2006-09-11

Trimming the FAT!

We're not using thembut we're a SME. We are using Citrix to log into our ERP plus for some users of reports on pgms like Crystal, to keep license counts down.I agree with all your reasons. The desktop became popular because it enabled the end user. More...

Tags: blade, Dr Dij, windows, security, it management, hardware, networking, window on windows, PC

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

Why aren't mainframes dead already?

Back in 1991, famed computer punditStewart Alsop claimed that the last mainframe would be unplugged inside of 5years. He wasnÂ't alone in that prediction. Many analysts and pundits looked atthe power of the mainframes back then and the rapid growth of PC-based networksand wrote the epitaph for the mainframe. But...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Blade servers, mainframe

Blog posts 2006-07-27

Wintel Directions

blog rootWintel Directions - Research for technologistsWelcome to the Wintel Directions Blog - I will be covering new technologies concerning the world of Wintel products and working to find the directions these products will take - KenThis post originally appeared on an external websiteVirtual PC - Hardware and SoftwareFirst topic...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Groupware, Blade servers, Servers, ken.leitman@..., hardware, external Website, Wintel, Web site, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2005-12-14