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Measure Dell M1000e and M600 Power Consumption

"Going green" is popular these days. Whether your organization is buying into the movement for social or financial reasons, you'll still need to measure your success. Dell's new M1000e chassis and M600 blade servers have built-in methods to get power information. Scott Lowe explains. by Scott Lowe

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blade, Chassis, Scott Lowe, Power Supply Reading, Individual Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Dell M1000e: Lessons learned

Previously, I discussed the process I went through to make a decision on some new elements for my network and server infrastructure at Westminster College. I purchased an EMC AX4 SAN to complement a new Dell M1000e blade chassis filled with seven M600 servers. Here's how it's working out. by...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blade, iDRAC, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Ethernet, Servers, Hardware, Networking, Scott Lowe

Blog posts 2008-06-12

A travel log of Blade's Edge Mountains in the World of Warcraft

Adventurers in the World of Warcraft come to Blade's Edge Mountains when they reach level 65 or so. This is a very exciting time for players, they can see the end of the leveling grind to 70 and eventual access to all of the end game content is within their...

Tags: Blade, World Of Warcraft, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Mark Kaelin

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Technologia: A travel log of Blade's Edge Mountains in WoW

A travel log of Blade's Edge Mountains in the World of Warcraft presented by Technologia, the official unofficial guild of TechRepublic. by Wally Bahny

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Wally Bahny, Off Topic, World of Warcraft, WoW, technologia, geekend

Image galleries 2008-06-02

McAfee Total Protection for Network is an enterprise-class network security center

I am writing to you live from the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas while attending Interop. While here, I make it a point to identify new products that are of interest to those who can not attend. First up is the McAfee Total Protection ToPS for Network product...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Security, Network, Blade, Network Security, ToPS Suite, Content Security Blade Server, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Rick Vanover

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Remaking my server environment: Blade servers, virtualization, terminal computing

Over the next couple of months, my staff and I will be making some relatively significant changes to the computing environment at Westminster College. I thought I'd use this post to describe what we're doing and why and maybe give you some ideas about your own workings. ...

Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Environment, Storage, Computing, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Terminal Services, Virtualization, Hardware, Scott Lowe

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Dell shows off new PowerEdge Blade Servers

Dell introduced the PowerEdge M-Series, which consists of a new 10U chassis that is able to support up to 16 half-height blades. Blades are built around either Intel or AMD processors, and full-height blades for the chassis will be offered later this year. Developed over two years,...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blade Server, Blade, Dell PowerEdge, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Geek Gifts 2007: Force FX Lightsaber from Master Replicas

As a kid growing up with the Star Wars saga, nothing typified the magic of Star Wars more than lightsabers. The idea of "laser swords" was always a huge part of the wow factor for my prepubescent friends and me. Using Wiffle Ball bats as our makeshift lightsabers, we staged...

Tags: Star Wars, Blade, Replica, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2007-12-16

AS/400 coming to blade servers

Chris Maxcer of the SystemiNetwork journal has stumbled across an entry showing the i5, aka the AS/400, slotting into IBM's BladeCenter racks. According to The Register: The Power-based blades should be a boon for application hosts and loyalists to that much diminished legion, the mid-range/minicomputer server...

Tags: Blade Server, Blade, IBM AS/400, Servers, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-09

HP offers BladeSystem Unified Communications combo

HP is offering BladeSystem Unified Communications combinations that promise to bring the best of blade server and communication solution to enterprises. An excerpt from Information Week: HP is offering "Solution Blocks" that integrate leading software-based communications tools with its BladeSystem enclosures and related products to provide...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Blade Servers, Servers, Finance, Management, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Brocade ships 8 Gbit/s fibre channel blades

At the Storage Networking World in Dallas, Brocade announced that its first 8 Gbit/s blades have already shipped to OEMs for evaluation. General availability should come early next year. Excerpt from The Register: Brocade says the transition from 4 to 8 Gbit/s is especially valuable...

Tags: Fibre Channel, Blade, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-10-15

IBM rejigs System S Blade Center to further target SMBs

IBM, which unveiled its System S Blade Center for small and medium sized businesses, has now announced a "office ready kit" enclosure that makes the systems easy to install and use. A quote from the article at InformationWeek "With its ability to fit into an office...

Tags: Blade, Small And Medium Business, IBM Corp., System S, Blade Center, Blade Servers, Smb/Sme, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-10-06

IBM's BladeCenter - S: Blade servers tailored for SMBs

Blade servers have always been available for large enterprises that can maintain data centers and provide the required power supply and maintenance staff. Now, IBM's new BladeCenter - S seeks to provide SMBs small and medium businesses with the simplicity and functionality of blade servers to handle multiple applications...

Tags: Blade Server, IBM eServer BladeCenter, Blade, Small And Medium Business, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Smb/Sme, Servers, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Technologia: A travel log of Zangarmarsh in the World of Warcraft

Technologia, the unofficial official guild of TechRepublic, continues its adventures in the World of Warcraft. As the collective level of the guild membership grows, the areas where we play changes. With the release of The Burning Crusade expansion pack, the areas where we do our questing have taken a turn...

Tags: Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Mark Kaelin

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Supermicro does a one-up with new blade lineup

It appears that Supermicro, a slightly lesser-known server company, has done a one-up on the other Tier 1 server vendors with its latest blade design, aptly called the SuperBlade, that was unveiled at Computex. If you recall, I just reported a couple of days ago on Sun’s...

Tags: Blade, Supermicro, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-06-12

New blade hardware from Sun lets you mix and match

Eager for a larger piece of the blade server space, third-ranked in overall server market Sun Microsystems has launched a new line of blade servers called Sun Blade 6000 Modular System that allows you to mix and match to your hearts content. The new line-up gives the...

Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-06-10

SGI introduces Itanium-based blade servers

I just read about a new server move from SGI that is definitely ironic when you consider the fact that SGI was once a sworn enemy of the Wintel alliance, but since Linux has undercut its high-end workstation business SGI is now one of the growing number of former tech...

Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Intel Itanium, Silicon Graphics Inc., News, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2005-11-14

The final stroke for blades going commodity

This week, HP decided to buy RLX, one of the pioneers of blade servers. RLX had actually been out of the blade hardware business for awhile -- now they make blade management software. Nevertheless, this move is the symbolic final stroke of blade servers going mainstream. I remember how cool...

Tags: Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2005-10-05

Exchange, SANs, and blade servers

One TechRepublic member posted a question in the Discussion Center regarding the installation of Exchange on a blade server with the data stored on a SAN. Scott Lowe offers his advice. In March, 2005, TechRepublic member mlepage posted this thread in the Discussion Center: "I will be...

Tags: iSCSI, SAN, Servers, Storage, Scott Lowe MCSE, Blade servers, Storage area networks (SAN), Utility computing, Storage management, Network technology, blade, blade server, server, E-mail Administration Tips Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Exchange, Hardware

Technical articles 2005-06-10

Video-107 PCI/AGP Blade 3D (Ver.6.50.5452-92ICD 08/01/2000) 2000-08-01 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../extract/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:Video-107 PCI/AGP Blade 3D (Ver.6.50.5452-92ICD 08/01/2000)

Tags: Blade, AGP, Microsoft Windows, Jaton, Video Cards, PCI, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Components, Storage

Software downloads 2000-08-01