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The Edge of the Blade Question: Dell vs HP

In my previous company I had the opportunity to work with a HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure.  It was a very nice piece of equipment.  It provided a fully power and network-redundant backplane, albeit at a premium.  Easy to manage, and took up only 10 U’s for 16 servers.
I’m  looking to implement a similar solution at […]

The whirlwind that is iSCSI

There’s two big buzzwords in my industry nowadays: virtualization, and iSCSI. Both are related to some degree, as iSCSI SANs seems to work well with VMWare. VMotion now even lets you hot-swap a VM from one hardware to another without shutting it down.
So “routeable storage” seems to be the future of the industry […]

The forum of all forums

Ars Technica now has a forum dedicated to Systems Integrators and Architects:  The Server Room
Sponsored by Dell and chalk full of IT guys who know and like what they’re talking about.  Always a good thing.
I spent a good chunk of my day reading about the future of iSCSI and BTU calculations.  I have a feeling […]