| Did you know that blade servers and virtualization | | | | candidates' for your virtual infrastructure |
| can be combined now to move forward in efforts to | | | | implementation, mainly due to the limited Scalability of |
| consolidate and reduce the number of servers | | | | these systems. For example the limited slots of |
| needed in the data center? | | | | network cards & memory slots in older blades |
| Customers use virtualization to help resolve a variety | | | | were a real show stopper for using blades as the |
| of challenges. Many begin as part of a server | | | | hardware platform for your virtualization environment. |
| consolidation strategy to reduce the purchase of | | | | Today, the server virtualization technology on Blade |
| hardware and reduce management, But the benefits | | | | Servers can be an ideal solution for many customers |
| of virtualization go well beyond the reduction of TCO | | | | with challenges such as; limitations of space, power, |
| (Total Cost of Ownership). The Virtualization can also | | | | & cooling in the Data Center. |
| help reduce the development cycle and deployment | | | | Blades systems today is the solution, from the |
| of new applications. Furthermore, it can be used to | | | | energy point of view, the most efficient, and some |
| increase the uptime of the systems and add more | | | | hardware vendors already have dared that blades |
| flexibility with all the advance features offered by | | | | spend up to 19% less energy than the traditional |
| virtualization vendors, which never deemed possible in | | | | model of 1U & 2U servers. Further more, Blades |
| a physical environment. | | | | can highly improve the wiring of the Data Center. |
| However, historically blades systems were not good | | | | |