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 ...

Is it a blade? Is it a rack server? Hewlett-Packard's new p-class dual-processor server system combines features of both--giving it the oomph to handle a wider variety of tasks. Michael Kanellos is ...

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 ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif.--Just now coming to market, super-slim "blade" servers already dominate the agenda, but even exciting new technology does little to dispel the gloom in the overall server market.

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 ...

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 ...

Blade servers are no longer on the bleeding edge, but there continues to be a lot of debate about when and where the slimmed-down servers make sense. It seems they’re starting to make sense in a lot ...

While blade servers can offer tremendous benefits for the data center, early adopters of the technology warn fellow IT implementers to plan very carefully. “The impact on facilities wasn’t considered ...

Dell Computer wants a cut of the blade-server market. The company, in a press conference Wednesday morning in New York, announced a new blade-server line, dubbed PowerEdge 1655MC, along with ...

Compaq Computer has begun selling its first "blade" servers, networked computers stacked side by side so that 280 can fit in a single 6-foot-tall rack, the company will announce Monday. The BL series, ...