| Server blade market growing fast, says
summit |
Mar. 17, 2003
The Server Blade Summit 2003 tradeshow
and conference has issued an announcement summarizing the
results of its recently concluded event and about the overall
state of the associated market.
According to the
show's organizers . . .
- Interest in the emerging blade computing market has more
than doubled since last year, as measured by attendee and
exhibitor participation
- Industry analyst IDC forecasts that server blades will
generate $3.7 billion in revenue by 2006
- IMEX Research, a technology
market research and consulting company, predicts that the
market for computing blades is poised to explode from less
than one percent in 2002 to 23 percent in 2006 of all entry
and small server shipments
- Representatives from more than 30 companies attended the
inaugural meeting of the Server
Blade Trade Association
What are
server blades?
From the Server Blade Summit's
announcement . . .
Server blades are a new generation of highly
advanced, ultra-dense server environments. A server blade is
essentially an entire server that fits on a single card, or
blade, and contains the CPU, memory, and networking
components necessary to run applications. These blades are
plugged into a single chassis that can accommodate upwards
of 24 server blades in the space previously occupied by one
traditional server. When comparing a standard 6-foot data
center rack, administrators could deploy 336 server blades,
vs. 42 1U servers. In addition to delivering an ultra-dense
server environment, server blades offer extremely low power
consumption, breakthrough "economies of scale" and a new
level of "economies of skill" through its plug-and-play
design.
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