Blade Watch

http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202201558&subSection=Systems+Management

The blade server wars are heating up, and this time the battlefield is the small and mid-sized businesses, whose specific needs and volume potential have led market leaders Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) to tailor specific new platforms to meet their requirements.

IBM since June has been touting its BladeCenter S platform, which has a Dec. 18 roll-out scheduled and is targeted specifically at SMBs. Hewlett-Packard last month introduced a new blade server chassis dubbed “Shorty” that the company claims will provide mid-size companies with an “easy-to-configure data center in box.”

The efforts to provide mid-size businesses with tailored blade platforms represent something of a “catch-up” effort for IBM and HP, which both were caught by surprised at the high level of server blades into data centers of medium-sized businesses, said Gordon Haff, an analyst with Illuminata, in an interview.

It will be interesting to see how sales of blades particularly the small business blade solutions sell in the small/medium business market. Do check out this article, it’s an interesting read.

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