If you're new to the lingo of blades, one of the terms you'll be hearing a lot over the coming years is "U." Vendors like IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and RLX--as well as networking vendors-- use "U" ...

I recently completed a server hardware refresh in my environment and made the decision to switch to rack mount hardware. Even though I am no stranger to rack mount hardware, I have never run rack ...

At the recent Flash Memory Summit, a new name from New Zealand surfaced in a bid to cause waves in the enterprise storage space. Novodisq presented its Novoblade system, a platform built to combine ...

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One of my clients is attempting to unload a relatively new Dell 42U server rack. I can't find a model number on the thing, so I was looking for a service tag. This effort was futile. Does anyone know ...

Our benchmark validation and test lab is growing again, so naturally we're adding more rackmount systems to the triple 42U racks. For over a year, we've had an old Pentium 4 based 1U system running ...

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 ...