Oracle's Sun Fire x86 systems data centre stack brings new hardware, including Intel-powered blade servers

New blades from HP are packed with memory and designed to reduce sprawling data centres, the company says

In a development that could remove the need for air cooling inside data centres, a company is now offering liquid immersion cooling for blade servers

SGI is upgrading its Altix ICE HPC blade server range with new processors from Intel and AMD

GRC's data centre cooling system saves energy costs and keeps things simple - by dunking standard blades vertically in a bath of coolant

The next generation of IBM System x servers are banking heavily on Intel's Nehalem and IBM chipsets. The plan is to shake up mid-range servers