Just days after NEC Corp. announced plans to ship blade servers based on Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 microprocessor, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday confirmed that it too expects to ship blade systems based on the 64-bit chips.
The Wyndham San Jose hotel got a taste this week of some of the power management issues that may be facing blade users in the next few years, as the hotel played host to the Server Blade Summit conference.