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Blade servers slashing through datacenters
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 08 April 2010, 01:12 IST
Massachusetts: Blade servers are becoming the dynamic platforms for the datacenter of the future, says a recent survey. Majority of IT firms are leveraging blades in strategic initiatives within their IT infrastructure.
The survey launched by International Data Corporation (IDC) reveals that majority of the respondents identify blades as a key part of their strategic initiatives. The respondents were also found to have higher rate of virtualization on their blades, paving the way for the transition to private clouds within the datacenter.
"IT organizations are realizing that blade technologies can help optimize their IT environments to keep pace with ever-changing business demands while simultaneously simplifying their IT infrastructure and improving asset utilization, IT flexibility, and energy efficiency," said Jed Scaramella, Senior Research Analyst, Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends and Strategies at IDC.
Blades will continue to be an engine of growth for the server industry and it will represent significant portion of server purchases over the next two years, indicates the survey respondents.
The survey shows that blade deployments remain largely datacenter centric and IT organizations prefer to virtualize on a blade server than on any other type of server form factor.