Battle of the Blades -cont'd

To Blades or not to Blades, that is the question?

Industry data tells us that only ~15% of current x64 systems are in the blade
form factor. Trade offs including i/o limitations, smaller memory footprint,
reduced CPU options, expensive vendor specific management tools, heat density
issues, and reduce serviceability have all contributed to poor adoption in the
enterprise data centre. Not to mention over selling Blades for Virtualization
by some of the other bad boys in the industry. Phew!

So finally the wait is over, yesterday Sun announced it's Dual Socket AMD,
Intel, and CMT Blades in a 10RU form factor. The only viable alternative to
rack servers in the industry today.



So congratulations to Andy and the team producing a no compromise blade
chassis for Xeon, Opteron and CMT technology. No specific tools required and
no vendor extra costs for management and a much welcomed increase in RAS and
serviceability against the incumbents.



If we are going to see blades increase verses the rack servers in the Data
Centre, then the next 12-months will be an intriguing period of time.

-InsomniacsAnonymous

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