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Volume 3, Number 5 -- February 8, 2006

IBM Expected to Launch New BladeCenters This Week

Published: February 8, 2006

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM is hosting a big server event in New York tomorrow and is widely expected to roll out a new BladeCenter blade server chassis and new blade servers, which presumably cope with heating and cooling issues better than the old blades did. The power density in IBM and Hewlett-Packard blade servers is very high, and this is causing heating issues in data centers that were never designed for so much power consumption and heat in a small space.

The word on the street is that IBM will roll out new PowerPC-based blades, running both Linux and AIX, and may even discuss its plans for putting the Cell PowerPC variant in the BladeCenter for use as workstations and HPC servers.

IBM is also expected to make other server and storage announcements, and I will give you the scoop after I get back from the event.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Microsoft Puts Branch Offices in the Spotlight

VMware Gives Away Updated GSX Server for Free

Expect a Longhorn Server CTP During the Second Quarter

HP Partners to Create Water Cooling for Server Racks

But Wait, There's More:

Microsoft to Charge $50 Per Year for OneCare Live Security Solution . . . SWsoft Streamlines the Move from Physical to Virtual Windows Servers . . . Mobile Phones from Sony Ericsson to Get Better Exchange Server 2003 Connectivity . . . Microsoft to Better Support Partner Questions in Customer Support Organization . . . ASNA, ISS Launch Midrange Migration Center . . . IBM Expected to Launch New BladeCenters This Week . . .

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