Technology Mindset

Most of top brand server producer such as Dell, IBM, HP are now they talk about Blade server technology. A blade server is a server chassis housing multiple thin, modular electronic circuit boards, known as server blades. This technology claims as a green technology, Each blade typically comes with one or two local ATA or SCSI drives.

Blade servers allow more processing power in less rack space, simplifying cabling and reducing power consumption. According to a SearchWinSystems.com article on server technology, enterprises moving to blade servers can experience as much as an 85% reduction in cabling for blade installations over conventional 1U or tower servers. With so much less cabling, IT administrators can spend less time managing the infrastructure and more time ensuring high availability.

By the way who is the first talk about this technology? and why blade server?

Blade server technology was initially developed in the early millennium through a partnership between IBM and Intel. Later, a number of major companies, led by IBM, formed an “industry community” in February 2006, with a website base at blade.org. The mission of the community is to “accelerate the growth and adoption of [blade] technologies in the market.” So, that is the reason why blade server?

Do I need to migrate to blade right now?

As customers look to grow their data centers or replace aging infrastructures, many are turning to blades to save space, increase density and decrease power consumption, while lowering total cost and improving infrastructure flexibility, blade server is the answer

The benefit of Blade server

The open BladeCenter design specifications are intended to enable companies to develop and build compatible networking switches, blade adapter cards (daughter cards), and appliance and communications blades. Hardware developers can now more easily develop and build compatible blade products in these categories and participate in the rapidly growing blades market served by the IBM BladeCenter and Intel Enterprise Blade Server platforms. Through the release of the design specifications, we can harness the development power of the industry and deliver a more comprehensive solution roadmap for our diverse customer base.

In the near future all of server should be like this, all are move to Blade server technology. The chassis and included blade servers may require a substantial initial investment in hardware and implementation for a business, even when compared to traditional rack-servers. However, blade servers bring advantages in space, power consumption, cable reduction, reliability, and economy of scale that may offer considerable longer term benefits.