Blade Servers

The benefits of the blade approach will be obvious to anyone tasked with running down hundreds of cables strung through racks just to add and remove servers. This page describes the term server blade and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information. A blade server is a thin, modular electronic circuit board containing one, two, or more microprocessors and memory. Blade servers consume less power than the many power hungry pieces of equipment still in production. Every major computer company has either already begun selling blade servers or has plans to do so. Depending on your IT infrastructure, blade servers may even reduce your acquisition costs. For blade servers the main competition comes from IBM, Dell and Fujitsu Siemens. A Blade is a complete server in itself, Ethernet, CPU, RAM all in one. A few years ago, blade servers were only found in large data centers. Blade servers offer the high performance and manageability.