Whitepaper: Blade servers; the right choice for the SMB or enterprise

The datacentre has become home to a heterogeneous set of mission-critical application and infrastructure servers, supported by any number of communications and storage devices, inter-connected by a tangled web of I/O cables and power cords, creating a complex, administrative nightmare.

In fact, the datacentre has become home to an architecture where each new application generates the requirement for a new server, regardless of the fact that none of the servers already wasting thousands of kilowatts of energy are running anywhere near full capability. In fact many (most?) of the servers in the datacentre utilise less than 20% of their processing capacity.

About five years ago, blade server technology arrived enabling IT departments to consolidate, simplify, and virtualise the datacentre both in enterprises and small to medium sized businesses (SMBs). To learn more about blades, click here