Blade server market Industry development Dark surge

The blade server was born in 2001 at HP's RLX company in response to demand, after which HP and IBM launched a more http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18046.html "> Enterprise customer's new product, and with all the advantages of rack-like servers, and with greater ease of use and manageability, and integrated server, storage and network advantages of equipment, can maximize the space of the data center, reduce hardware total transaction costs, reduce power consumption, Thus favored by the enterprise and other advantages greatly simplifies the management of the server, the market acceptance is also increasing year, Dell and other enterprises have been put into the market. While the blade server in the high availability, high-density and other characteristics of the market recognition and high-speed development, its own high price but another large number of small and medium-sized enterprise users in front of the halt.

Blade server is different from the original rack and tower server, the three major blade server manufacturers specifications and standards vary. Different specifications and systems, so that different manufacturers of server blades can not be mixed, resulting in blade products can not be compatible, even the same manufacturer of different blade products are incompatible. This leads to the purchase of a manufacturer's blade product, and the user is bound to the manufacturer's product.

Throughout the process of the development of IT industry, unified standardized products have greater development space and stronger market penetration. Because the standardization of the blade server is not implemented, in IBM, HP, Dell and other server manufacturers near the monopoly of the situation, the price is high, not only to make it difficult to enter the future competitors, but also let many small and medium-sized users can only hope "blade" sigh.

Although IBM has created an industry organization named blade.org around the BladeCenter Blade server, Intel is an important member, but for companies of small size, it seems to have built up barriers rather than open arms. In particular, is in the development phase of China's server enterprises involved, but also met the same as the plight of DVD manufacturers.

Modular server turned out

At the beginning of this year, Intel launched the first common modular system based on the SSI Modular server Standard in China, which greatly facilitated the expansion and popularization of modular servers. At the same time, the Intel Multi-flex technology built into the universal modular system will not only help SMEs achieve the desired server performance, but also gain additional storage capabilities, high reliability and manageability at an affordable price. In addition, because the system is based on an open SSI Modular server Standard, users will have more flexible upgrade options and costs can be effectively controlled.

Of course, Intel launches a modular server system for strategic purposes. While most of the previous blades used Intel's chips, Intel is clearly not satisfied. In recent years, Intel has won the desktop-level market, but in the server and mobile markets, it has not stopped AMD's momentum. Once AMD has grabbed the standard blade technology standards in front of it, Intel will be forced to sign Shichong, just as a few years ago the were bit technology and the DDR and Rambus memory standards contend.

In this sense, the modular server is a high game for Intel to seize the initiative. The specific effect of how, pending market testing, but from Intel together with 40 of domestic server vendors to launch a modular server system of the momentum, you can see Intel's determination. In many domestic server suppliers, no lack of strength, the industry well-known. And with the implementation of modular server system, followers are also increasing day by day.

So what are the advantages of a modular server compared to a traditional blade server? Why is it more suitable for midsize enterprises or even SMEs? Let us use the space log Aisino 9300R to briefly explain.

In management, with seamless installation, migration and expansion of the integrated server system Aisino 9300, greatly simplifies user management and operational maintenance. 9300R all components, such as computing module, storage module, heat dissipation module and management switching module, power supply and so on, are redundant and hot-swappable design, whether it is to add a calculation module or a storage function module, just plug the expansion module into the chassis, as simple as using hot-swappable hard drives, Ensure that business applications are not interrupted by a single point of failure. Taking into account the user characteristics of midsize applications, the aerospace joint log 9300R uses the WYSIWYG graphical management interface based on the Web, with the powerful end-to-end management function, "fool-type" operation convenient and fast, so that some medium-sized or even small business IT managers can be very easy to manage maintenance.