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http://www.bladenetwork.net/media/PDFs/WP_IDCBusiCaseBladeSwitches.pdf

Blade servers have been widely adopted in datacenters because they cost less to deploy and less to operate (due to savings in power and cooling) than rack-optimized servers. Blade servers are also more easily scaled than fixed-capacity monolithic servers to meet workload growth and are easier to service with their field-replaceable blades.

Embedding switches into blade servers expands and enhances these benefits, providing further infrastructure integration, simplified management, greater scalability, improved power and cooling efficiency, and increased application availability. Additionally, blade server switches allow organizations to realize the full inherent benefits of blade servers.

Check out this whitepaper, it discusses the benefits of the integrated switches. It’s very interesting and I agree with what it discusses. It was great meeting them a few weeks ago, I love their 10GB Ethernet solution, it would be great for Grid/High Performance Computing solutions, also consider that with the integrated switches you can reduce the amount of cable management for the blade platform in your data center, also that the Blade integrated switches can work out more energy efficient and cheaper to run than the standard network switches, the example being, that a large Cisco switch will need approximately 300w, the blade switches need between 25w and 65w, very cool. Check out the pdf it’s interesting.

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