http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=8953&pagtype=all

IBM said yesterday that it plans to build a blade server system for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB). For IBM, that means customers with fewer than 1,000 employees.

IBM BladeCenter product manager Scott Tease said that IBM plans to start selling a new, smaller blade product into smaller businesses later in 2007. IBM currently sells BladeCenter chassis to large enterprises, with each chassis capable of housing up to 14 servers. In addition, the systems house modules for management, and for connecting to the network and external storage systems.

Very cool, the more the vendors can bring the blade platform to the SME market, the more opportunities for customers, the SMB blade might just be as good as a small development/single purpose solution in an enterprise setup, will be interesting to see what their product setup is.




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