NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
07/12/05
Today's focus: Server blades expand storage connection options
Dear networking.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* Various vendor approaches to incorporating storage with server
blades
* Links related to Servers
* Featured reader resource
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THE NEW DATA CENTER: SPOTLIGHT ON STORAGE
Network World's latest report takes a look at storage trends
such as virtualization, encryption and archiving. Here you will
also find seven tips for managing storage in the new data
center, how storage encryption can help ease the threat of
identity theft, why one exec believes its all about the
information and more. Click here:
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Today's focus: Server blades expand storage connection options
By Deni Connor
As companies seek to cast server blades as general-purpose
servers, they are building out their server blade
infrastructures in a similar fashion to traditional
server-network-storage connections.
HP and IBM have added Fibre Channel connectivity to their
blades, and last week Dell expanded the interconnect options of
its server blades with the incorporation of two Fibre Channel
switches.
Dell added two McData 4314 Fibre Channel switches to its Modular
Server Enclosure for attachment to storage-area networks (SAN).
Dell's PowerEdge 1855 blades can now connect to other blades,
the network or to storage with Ethernet, Fibre Channel and
InfiniBand technology from Intel, Brocade, QLogic and Topspin
(recently acquired by Cisco).
The McData 4314 Fibre Channel switch for the Dell PowerEdge 1855
is available now, starting at $9,000 for a four-port switch.
By comparison, HP integrates a Gigabit Ethernet switch module, a
2G bit/sec and 4G bit/sec Brocade Fibre Channel switch and a
4G-bit/sec McData SAN switch in its HP BladeSystems.
IBM offers McData six-port Fibre Channel switch modules, Cisco
Gigabit Ethernet modules and Nortel Gigabit Ethernet switches,
as well as a network-attached storage blade. The company also
incorporates Topspin's InfiniBand products for its eServer
BladeCenter server interconnects.
Hitachi, a company new to blades, uses Topspin's InfiniBand
products in its BladeSymphony family.
Sun, on the other hand, has apparently gotten out of the blade
server business. It recently retired its Sun Fire B1600 blade
server and offers no replacements:
<http://www.sun.com/products/blades/>
Fujitsu Siemens' Primergy BX600 blade system offers Gigabit
Ethernet and 2G bit/sec Fibre Channel switching technology.
Bull's NovaScale blades also incorporate Gigabit Ethernet and
Fibre Channel connectivity.
And Brocade, a company that specializes in Fibre Channel
switches, recently acquired Therion Software to add SAN-based
provisioning of server blades.
RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS
Dell fills out blade connectivity, more to come
IDG News Service, 06/30/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/063005-dell-blade.html?rl
Brocade expands beyond Fibre Channel wares
Network World, 06/13/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers3192
The ABC's of AMD vs. Intel
Network World, 07/11/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071105-amd-intel.html?rl
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To contact: Deni Connor
Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can
reach her at <mailto:dconnor@nww.com>.
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This newsletter is sponsored by Oracle
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assets, not to end the life of existing infrastructure assets.
The Oracle Grid runs applications faster than the fastest
mainframe. You can adopt Oracle Grid technologies with minimal
investment, zero disruption, and fast ROI. Learn more about the
specialized set of terms and acronyms that define Grid
technologies with this comprehensive glossary. Download the
Oracle Grid Glossary now!
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=108325
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