Blade based systems

Robert La Ferla robertlaferla at attbi.com
Wed Jan 15 13:31:39 EST 2003


I have had good experiences with the Dell PowerEdge 1U (blade) servers. 
 They come in various configurations with 1 or 2 CPUs, and up to 4GB 
RAM.  They have more powerful 2U and 4U models too.  Dell will 
pre-install RedHat or ship a blank system to you.  A while back, I 
compared PenguinComputing and Dell rackmounts and found that Dell 
offered the better value.  All of them will cut a deal with you. 
 However, PenguinComputing, being a smaller Linux focused vendor, *may* 
give you better support.  I have never used them so it's only 
speculation on my part.

Robert







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