2008-05-13 12:31:00 -

www.researchandmarkets.com - Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c91582) has announced the addition of "Product Comparison -Blade Servers" to their offering.

Enterprises are actively consolidating their data centre computing resources. Blade servers offer a high density computing environment in a small physical footprint and now offer lower costs than equivalent rack-mounted solutions. At the highest level,

the features and functions offered by different vendors appear very similar, making the selection difficult.

This research note provides a detailed evaluation of the primary blade server vendors and their products to alleviate purchasing confusion. This note discusses:

-Factors contributing to the implementation of blade servers.

-Discussion and graphic comparisons of the five leading blade server vendors with relative product and vendor rankings.

-A summary of the strengths and weaknesses of each product.

-General recommendations for product selection based on the enterprise's situation.

Blade servers are widely used for server consolidation, high availability operations, mission critical applications and high performance computing. While most SMEs will generally focus on the server consolidation and high availability missions, some will require more than one of these options. The vendors reviewed provide products that span all of these areas.

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