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Blade Servers are the hottest trend in datacenters today. I’m sure you’ve heard the hype: lower cost and better efficiency. To be sure, blades have come a long way in the last few years and are looking better than ever, but considering putting blades into your own business is something that should be considered very carefully.

There are many hidden dangers inherent to the blade concept that are often overlooked and these hidden dangers can come back to haunt you long after you have committed to the idea of blades.

Before we look into blades themselves I want to discuss what blades are. According to Wikipedia: “Blade servers are stripped down computer servers with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space. Whereas a standard rackmount server can function with (at least) a power cord and network cable, blade servers have many components removed to save space, minimize power consumption and other considerations, while still having all the functional components to be considered a computer.”

Blade servers have been getting a lot of press and exposure, there’s been debate going on for years about the most energy efficient, the vendor with the longest serving enclosure etc, which vendors have the best blade support in terms of functionality. It’s all industry noise, interesting noise, but noise nonetheless. For the small business, for the end user the key decisions are scalability, operating costs and accessibility/comfort zone.

Blade servers are most efficient operationally and financially in volume, for the end user we need to establish what it is they need, if it’s a server they need, or just a cloud service they buy online, the debate is set to continue, in the meantime check out this article it’s an interesting and informative read.

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