IBM's Blade Servers Have Buzz

Posted on February 22, 2006

Blade Center

IBM is attemping to revolution servers with their new blade servers and chassis that allow the servers to share resource.

CNET says, "Blades are thin servers that plug side-by-side into a chassis. The chassis supplies shared resources such as electrical power and networking switches. The approach is designed to be more flexible than conventional stand-alone rack-mounted servers."

These thin servers can save space in data centers. Maybe they will eventually target home users as well. A chassis full of blade servers to run your wired home.

Update: The blade servers are now part of Lenovo can be found here.

Photo: IBM


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