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Super Micro announced that they’re launching their 4-watt and 8-watt based Server Building Block solutions. The servers are set to be energy efficient, quiet and at the same time provide the necesary storage and network flexibility that might be needed by the platform. Developing a server based on the Atom could be an ideal solution for those specific roles/environments, where I might want a print server, email or file server where performance is not as important as energy efficiency and affordability. They do sound cool, and the more options we have in the server space, the more we can find the right solution to meet different needs and user communities, virtualization I can hear many say is the answer, and they’re right on the whole. But the demand for that stand alone server or ‘mini’ server to perform a specific role remains, an environment where I might only have one server will continue, remember the associated software/licensing and support costs. The concept of comfort zone, buying a server with Windows on it, is only two steps away from a pc, moving to a virtual world might seem that bit further away from what I know.

Regardless, may we continue to reach out to small businesses, continue innovating new solutions and platforms based on hardware, software and cloud computing – whatever works.

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