Bladewatch.com

MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Aug 07, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Next Generation Data Center Expo — Blade.org, the industry consortium driving open innovation in blade-based solutions, today announced three new “Blade.org Collaborative Solutions” — advanced solutions developed by vendor members working together to help businesses harness the mega trends that Blade.org believes will define the new enterprise datacenter: advanced energy efficiency, converged networking and hyper-consolidation.

“Blade.org has envisioned ‘Mega Trends’ that will shape the datacenter of the future. These over-arching themes, converged networks, advanced energy efficiency and hyper-consolidation, are focal points for the organization, around which its members are collaborating to address customers’ IT issues and challenges,” said Jed Scaramella, Research Analyst for IDC. “Blade.org is achieving its objectives of becoming a trusted voice in the market and to be considered a source of expertise on deploying blade solutions.” (1)

Very cool, anything we can do to further the blade message, either in terms of integrated solutions, or as an enabler to your business has to be a good thing. It will be interesting to see what solutions are announced as a result of this, working together on a specific customer need for example data center energy efficiency can achieve much more successful results when we approach all the components within the data center, that we are using the power efficiently to achieve our requirements. Upgrading the server is great, but what about the network, the storage and KVM? Check out the examples, they’re online, very cool.

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