Blade Servers: The Future for Data Centers?

IT organizations say they leverage blades in strategic initiatives, and blades also have a higher rate of virtualization. According to this Scientific Computing report, this paves the way for the transition to private clouds within the datacenter.

"'The value proposition of blade systems, beyond consolidation and system density, is becoming increasingly clear to customers,' said Jed Scaramella, senior research analyst, Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends and Strategies at IDC. '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.'"

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