Blade Watch

Network World

HP is unveiling the fourth generation of its blade PC line and bundling the devices with Citrix XenDesktop 3 virtualization software.

The HP BladeSystem bc2800 and bc2200, due out in March, sit inside the data center letting users connect to them from any location and device, whether it be a thin client, laptop or regular desktop. Unlike a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) model in which multiple virtual machines are contained on a single server, each blade PC can only serve one user at a time. But 280 of them can fit into a single rack, and client virtualization software helps deliver benefits related to security, availability, management and flexibility, according to HP.

It will be interesting to see how these configurations perform. The more choice and solutions available for the consumer, the better the chance there is that I will find the right solution, the right combination of products to work for my business. I’ll need to keep an eye out for these BC2800/BC2200s blades. I’m off to the HP site to check them out, here’s a url with more information.

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