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The IBM System Storage N series and IBM TotalStorage NAS Interoperability matrices are a source of information for customers to help select the best combination of integrated storage technologies to reduce expenses, increase efficiency and expedite storage infrastructure implementation.

The information in the matrices is intended to aid in the design of high quality solutions for leading storage platforms. These matrixes are updated regularly.

Source: IBM System Storage Interoperability Matrix

Earlier this week Intel held a press conference to advise the market of their intention to deliver a multiprocessor version of Nehalem. This is essentially a "vitality" announcement to ensure that the market, including investors, are aware that Intel has the next generation of high value processor in the works.
To prove their point, Intel wanted to show a system up and running with the new parts. IBM provided an "eX5" based system. The audience was able to see the screen with 64 cores and 128 threads up and running. It was a great opportunity for IBM to show the market again that they are the leaders in multiprocessor x86 and are Intel's best partner in the MP space.

Source: The Inquirer - finally... a solution for the 64 core 4tb ram market, Intel press room

IBM is excited to announce the addition of the new QLogic 12000 Series of Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand switches to the Cluster 1350 BOM and iDataPlex offerings.  The QLogic 12000 Series represents a new class of InfiniBand switching for High Performance Computing. Based on the QLogic TrueScale™ QDR ASIC platform, these advanced 40Gb/s QDR switches are the next evolution in InfiniBand switches. The QLogic 12000 Fabric Directors support High Performance Computing (HPC), database clustering and grid utility computing applications; they maximize cluster and grid computing interconnect performance while simplifying and reducing data center costs. IBM is offering both Edge and Director class switches.  The 12200 and 12300 Edge switches are 1U self contained solutions that can also allow you to port out to a Director class switch. The 12800s are a completely modular family of Director class switches allowing complete flexibility of design. Units can be populated with Ultra High Density (UHD) leafs for maximum connectivity or Ultra High Performance (UHP) leafs for maximum performance. 

Today we've moved our server from our former sponsor PINS to the datacenter of our new sponsor OnDemand Capacity.
OnDemand Capacity now hosts all the sites of the Blue Live Group and provides us all the needs we require.

OnDemand Capacity is an superflexible hostingcentre with unlimited possibilities for hosting and capacity delivery. Even better is that OnDemand Capacity can expand their hardware within minutes straight from OnDemand Rentals, no deliverytimes or whatsoever.

• Very short term hosting (starting from one week)
• Long term hosting up to five years
• Virtual Machine rental for low prices
• Total solution hosting, rental of hardware combined with hosting
• Pay-as-you-grow services
• Flexible solution for your demands
• IBM Cross brand hosting solutions
• And much more, ondemand everything is possible...

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We have changed the way x4live looks to be in line with the Blue Live Group look-an-feel used on various sites like www.i5live.com
Nothing is perfect yet and we wil continue to change some of the content and components in the next couple of weeks.