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Although blade servers represent the fastest-growing segment of the server market, blade-server growth will be limited by a lack of standards and continued, rapid change during the next five years according to Gartner, Inc.

Gartner projects a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 percent for blade shipments from 2007 through 2012. The dramatic growth in blade shipments, however, does not translate to market domination — in 2007, blades represented 10 percent of shipments and Gartner forecasts this will rise to 20 percent in 2012.

“We are not suggesting that IT organizations stay away from blades — blades do address many problems in the data center,” said Andrew Butler, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “What we are saying is that IT organizations adopting blades need to be prepared for further changes in this technology. Blade servers have been a rapidly changing technology, and we fully expect this to continue, particularly during the next five years.”

An interesting article talking about blade server sales. Where the blade platform goes in the near future will be the question. Will the blade server be the new rack mount, or in a few years time will the concept of a server be out dated? Will we be talking about instance, or cpu per and memory hour?

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