How to choose Blade Server Small and medium enterprise application

Experts pointed out that, in the past, blade server mainly in the financial, telecommunications and oil exploration, Geological Survey and other departments. In recent years, the blade began to be a lot of SME users attention. The reason is that compared with traditional rack servers, blades have more advantages, such as high-density, space-saving and so on, these are very popular with small and medium-sized users.

In addition, today's SME concept has been different from the past, in the Internet environment, the so-called small and medium-sized enterprises from the size of the fact that many are not small, may have hundreds of employees, have their own financial system, some manufacturing enterprises and ERP system. For such a situation, if the choice of the general enterprise solutions, buy 42U cabinets, each server running different applications, regardless of cost, resource utilization and computing capacity of the point of view, can not meet the needs of these SMEs. and blade server Energy saving, space saving, easy to deploy, easy to manage the characteristics of the small and medium-sized enterprises absolutely have a place.

IBM System x Greater China General manager Fu Bin also pointed out that SMEs do not like large enterprises have many IT managers, they are more willing to use some mature easy to manage, easy to use products. From the perspective of IBM investment protection, SMEs must have the opportunity to grow, in the future become medium-sized enterprises or large enterprises, blades can also continue to use, which is the selling point of the blade server. As He Guowei, vice president of IBM Greater China and general manager of System and Technology division, said: "Growth-oriented enterprises with limited resources are expected to make use of technological progress to enhance their competitiveness without increasing costs." Therefore, the blade server must have the ' applicable, open, green, easy ' characteristics, in order to meet the SME customer today and future computing needs. ”

The "Applicable" sex is the primary problem that SME users need to consider when choosing blade servers. Only by clarifying its own application characteristics, and finding the corresponding architecture design, adopting modular concept, and having enterprise-class reliability, can the enterprise successfully construct the personalized blade system. The "Applicable" solution for the specific application needs of the enterprise embodies the overall strategy of the IBM Blade server, combining modular, mutually compatible design ideas and the design concepts of various chassis, blades and switching modules (Fabric) with different characteristics, IBM can find "applicable" The customer of the product combines the personalized solution.

At the same time, with the restriction of power supply system and the enhancement of energy saving and environmental protection consciousness, energy consumption is the focus of small and medium-sized enterprises, so the "green" theme of Blade server becomes one of its important application advantages. IBM BladeCenter, with its industry-leading innovative energy-saving technology, is better at the new system metrics-performance/power consumption ratio. IBM's groundbreaking powerexecutive technology can help customers "measure" the actual power consumption and thermal radiation at any time, and effectively plan and control the use of electricity. The innovative vector calibration cooling technology is a technology that manages intake, fan placement, and zone cooling, maximizing airflow within blade and rack servers and optimizing cooling efficiency.

"Open" compatibility is an important condition to protect small and medium-sized enterprise users ' investment to ensure flexible development. IBM has always adhered to the principle of openness in blade server development and design, and the new IBM BladeCenter Open fabric is a portfolio of I/O technologies integrated in BladeCenter, providing open, high-performance, full interconnect and intelligent management tools to help businesses run their businesses. The openness of open fabric technology is not only reflected in its flexible, rapid and reliable connection to the backbone of the data center, but also on all chassis, blades, and switches.

Simple and easy deployment is an important advantage of blade server relative to rack-type server. IBM uses a variety of leading technologies to make BladeCenter more user-friendly. For example, using the new BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager technology, you can reduce the deployment time of a server from days to hours. At the same time, IBM can make Blade Server management simpler and more flexible by leveraging virtualization technology and experience that is mature in Enterprise servers. IBM Virtualization Manager (IBM Virtualization Manager) provides a single point of management for realistic and virtual systems and the ability to manage multiple virtualized environments sustainably.

Over the past five years, with the efforts of vendors such as IBM, blades have increasingly become the primary choice for users to deploy IT infrastructures. IDC predicts that the blade market will grow at a high speed in the next few years, with a market total of more than 200,000 units by 2010, into more customer base.