Bladewatch.com

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NRF 97th Annual Convention & EXPO 2008 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that its BladeCenter S solution has received IBM Store Integration Framework (SIF) certification, making it ideal for and ready to run in retail store environments. Applications from over 75 SIF-certified Independent Solution Vendors (ISVs) specializing in retail are now available to run on BladeCenter S, the industry’s first blade computing system specially designed to help retailers simplify the management of technology needed to operate a store — from servers, to phone systems and antivirus applications — in a single system.

“IBM BladeCenter S is an ideal platform to host Oracle’s SIF-certified applications like Oracle® Retail Back Office, Oracle® Retail Point-of-Service and Oracle® Retail Mobile Point of Service,” said Steve Gannon, Senior Director, Product Strategy, Oracle Retail. “Previously, retailers typically had to run disparate hardware and appliances to run the different aspects of the store. BladeCenter S provides an integrated platform with a small footprint, simplifying our retail clients’ ability to run Oracle’s industry-leading applications.”

Very very cool, blade servers in many respects would be great, you could set them up, plug them in and leave them running the retail as well as the email/back office type roles that they might need to perform. Extending this to BladeCenter S can only strengthen the opportunities for IBM and it’s retail clients. How cool would it be if I could have a BladeCenter S in my retail sites, then use Grid technologies like DataSynapse overnight to do the overnight batch/accountancy/sales type reports? Have all the sites linked through the blade servers, monitored and managed centrally. We’ll see might not be everyones’ cup of tea, but it does sound interesting, I’ll need to check it out.

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