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September 5, 2008 (Computerworld) There has been a dearth of conveniently packaged servers for the midsize market. HP decided to try to change that with the introduction of the HP BladeSystem c3000. I recently tested a well-equipped unit, and overall, my impressions are positive.

The unit is designed especially for small and medium-size businesses. It’s particularly geared for scenarios where there is a need for multiple servers based on workloads and number of users but where there isn’t always a special room for servers with data center-quality power and server isolation. While I tested the tower enclosure, a rack-mountable version is available if an industry-standard rack is present at the location. Between four and eight storage and server blades can fit into the unit, depending on the individual blade choices and their respective heights, and the server doesn’t require any special power or plugs to be run. It plugs into a standard U.S. wall socket, is rated to an environment of 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 degrees Fahrenheit), and is designed to use that power efficiently and reduce cooling needs in the immediately surrounding environment.

A very cool article talking about HP’s ‘Shorty’ BladeSystem 3000 enclosure. Developing a ‘small business’ enclosure might bring real opportunities not only for the small/medium business, but the retail/enterprise environments. Rather than allocate and manage rack servers for that small office miles away, I might send them one blade enclosure with everything they need, some disk space, a domain controller, that email server and their intranet server all in one box under on unified support contract – It’s BL460c’s or LS21′s that’s it. Do check out the article, it’s an interesting read.

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