30 January 08
The big vendors are certainly rolling out heavier duty server blades these days. In recent months, all the top vendors unveiled souped up blades in one form or another. The latest in line is Hitachi America (San Diego, Calif.), with its Hitachi BladeSymphony 1000 blade.
This product has been around for a couple of months. Currently, its firmware-based virtualization features are available only on Itanium-based models. Within the next few months, however, Hitachi will release a Xeon-based blade for the BladeSymphony 1000 line in both dual-core and quad-core form factors.
