Blade Watch

HP to Introduce Dedicated Storage Blade
HP are “to Introduce Dedicated Storage Blade”, a blade that either allows you to start building blades with 876GB storage, and allows you to start using blades as file servers for small medium sized markets. This could prove interesting too for the larger enterprise markets. Traditionally, shared storage (your notes/outlook and file space) was provided by infrastructure, at a fixed cost, this was fine in the days of netapps filers when 200GB was ample, but as business requirements change, we need to re-address this. The driver is more space, at less cost, but with redunancy. The blade might introduce lower cost, the reduandancy might be the issue here. Selling the blade and parts at “a base cost of $1,599″ is smart, but the drives and enclosure can make the real cost higher. Check out the quickspecs: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12513_div/12513_div.html

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