Bladewatch.com

http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/3659446

Sun’s latest blade server, the X8420, is a 64-bit product targeted at the high end of the server market. This 4-way blade comes with a choice of two chassis types: One version is designed to maximize I/O and the other processing capacity.

“By focusing at the high end of the blade space, Sun can break down barriers that have thus far inhibited blade adoption and leverage its long expertise in designing and manufacturing high-end systems that run the most mission-critical parts of an organization’s IT infrastructure,” says John Humphreys, an analyst at IDC. “The Sun Blade 8000 helps to take blades and x64 systems into areas of the IT environment historically reserved for rackmount systems.”

The new blade server from sun does look very cool my concerns are mainly around the power and cost, they do look very impressive, it all depends what you want from your blade infrastructure, what you expect your blade to do.  I’m still a strong advocate of the BL35p blades, they’re small easy to support relatively disposable, single IDE drive, 4GB RAM and dual core dual processor, fantastic for batch/grid computers where we can afford to have one or few fail.

If we’re looking for industrial strength blades then maybe Sun, they do have quad processors and I know they are meant to be very scalable for SAN, costs and the comfort factor for the teams supporting it would be a major factor.

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