Blade Watch

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Information technology (IT) departments at state and local government agencies often are torn between competitive priorities – conserving budget dollars while making IT investments to improve agency operations. Fortunately, annual state and local IT spending will increase to approximately $33.5 billion and $28.9 billion respectively by 2009, according to market research firm Gartner Inc. – giving state and local IT managers the opportunity to use budget increases to invest in systems that cut costs and improve efficiencies. Blade servers reduce real estate and power costs while providing enormous flexibility and scalability over standalone servers, bringing real meaning to the adage “less is more.”

Very cool, do check out this article which discusses the benefits of blade technologies. Blade servers when deployed in the right way can be a real enabler to your business, whether it’s that retail system running on a small business blade solution, or that analytics blade farm; deploying blade servers with technologies such as 10GB Ethernet or SAN can be an efficient way of providing the IT infrastructure.

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