Blade Watch

http://www.zdnet.co.kr/etc/eyeon/enterprise/0,39036961,39155126,00.htm

It shows strong growth in demands for Blade Server. According to IDC Korea, market for Blade Server is growing at aggressive speed; in particular, the enterprise customers are doing serious upgrades-server consolidation, blade servers along with Windows market.

According to the industry, sales of Blade servers were up from 600 units in first half to over 1000 units in each of third and fourth quarter last year. The 4th qtr. reported strongest with over 1300 units being sold.

The overall market sales figures break down with IBM Korea, dominating blade server sales with 600 units in 3rd quarter, 1000 in 4th quarter. HP Korea also adding the overall market sales with 200 units in each of its 3rd and 4th quarter. Dell Korea round off with little less than 200 units sold.

…IDC Korea said, “With the rapid growth in Blade servers since second half of 2005, Windows installations too continues to go along with that figures. In first half of 2006, it surpassed Linux by 360 units, taking 64% market share” and “The change in the market dominance of Linux to Windows hints Blade server overcoming the stage of early adaptation and now entering into main stream market”..

Demand for blades appears to be rising in Korea accordingly to the article, very cool.

It’s interesting that they are being used with Microsoft windows server, whether they’re being used as grid engines as an alternative to an application server. Regardless, their cross platform support and suitability for different tasks makes them an ideal platform for deployment.

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