As an IT Manager, you are likely inundated by positive-spin marketing and vendors touting that their solution is “better, more cost-effective, cheaper, more efficient†and so on. Blade Servers are the latest technology to fall prey to the hype, over-selling and marketing blitzes that follow any new or up and coming technology or product. What happens, though, if we dump the glossy marketing hype and boil-down the facts? Will a distilled overview of what blade servers can really do for you measure up to the claims? Let’s find out.
An interesting article about blade servers and their associated products. I’ve written before about this, you need to be thinking of blade servers as part of an integrated solution, one part of a greater project to deliver what it is you aim to achieve. For example VMware on blades, using virtualization and the blade format to reduce the complexity of the server estate, the ability to manage or re-provision, combined with the ability to virtualize elements of the physical infrastructure to reduce the ‘time to live’ the provisioning time. That I can virtualize the network, the storage and reprovision the blade on demand – I can do this with rack servers, but I can benefit from the integrated switches, the unified platform and the common infrastructure. It’s all for debate and the benefit of blade technology is going to depend on your data center situation, your experience or comfort with the platform amongst everything else.
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