IBM’s BladeCenter S makes blades easier for SMB market

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/14/ibm_bladecenter_s/

IBM later this year plans to dish out a “desktop” blade box for small- to medium-sized businesses.

The BladeCenter S chassis eats up 7U of rack space and only has room for six blade servers. That compares to IBM’s big business package of 14 blades in a 9U chassis. As mentioned, however, the Blade Center S box doesn’t demand a rack at all, if customers want to plop the system down on a desk. Best of all for SMBs, the chassis plugs into a standard 110V outlet instead of requiring 220V.

You’ll, of course, want some high-end noise canceling headphones and protective clothing if you actually plan to run this as a desktop unit.

IBM has taken the liberty of announcing this system now even though it won’t ship until the fourth quarter. That could be because Big Blue needs something jazzy to discuss after ceding the blade server lead to HP.

Check this out, the register is talking about the new desktop blade box for the small/medium business. On a serious note though, this should bring the blade server to newer markets, not everyone has their own data center, being able to plug it in and press go, lowers the cost, the complexity of the IT, which has to be a good thing for IBM, and for the customer.

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