IBM has launched its BladeCenter server system, offering a chassis that can be upgraded with third-party blade servers and modules IBM last week introduced more openness to the burgeoning market ...

An IBM spokesperson confirmed the plan, adding that the new blades, called PowerBlades, will run on the company's Power4 processor, with Power5 versions becoming available when the new chip is ...

The new Windows support comes via x86 processor-based blades that plug into IBM's BladeCenter Extension, said Doris Conti, System z marketing director at IBM. The zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension ...

Andy Efstathiou of analyst Yankee Group agreed and predicted sales of hardware will soon pick up, particularly for blades. “HP and IBM are the leaders [in blade servers], and with a trend ...