Ushered in the era of total War blade server market

2007 years of nuclear, blade, virtualization, energy-saving, such as the development of the leading server market, Blade server technology has entered a mature stage, the blade began to show a different trend of diversification, on the processor, in addition to the use of Intel and AMD x86 architecture processor, this year can see power 6, More high-end RISC processors such as Itanium and UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) Enter the Blade field, and 4-way multi-core high-end blade products are also available.





as a blade server expansion, blade storage devices are also beginning to receive attention, and even we can build a SAN environment in the blade chassis, the blade manufacturers are gearing up to expand sales channels, we can say 2007 blade ushered in the era of full-scale war.





2007 Blade Server market conditions





industry still has a view that the blade market in the past few years, although there has been rapid growth, but the current blade server's main customer base is still limited to special industries, blade Server can eventually occupy the mainstream position, it is important to see whether it will eventually win the favor of the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises. With a 2006-year situation analysis, with the blade server and its related products continue to mature, blades are being applied to more and more industries.





from the manufacturer feedback, IBM, HP, Sun, Dell and other manufacturers have been a strategic focus of SMEs, but from their current market response, large enterprises are still far higher than the proportion of small and medium-sized enterprises; from the edge of the blade server, In addition to scalability and manageability, small-scale blade applications are less likely to see a significant return on investment, which is a factor that has to be taken into account in highly price-sensitive SMEs.





Therefore, the 2007 blade server will be widely used in telecommunications, finance, education, enterprise data centers and many other core business areas, blades in technology, virtualization technology is expected to become the 2007 China's server domain hotspot. It can be foreseen that the current server technology development, users of performance, reliability and other basic needs have been resolved, further through virtualization technology to optimize its IT resource allocation, rapid response to changes in business needs, will become the future investment hotspot. And the diversification of the blade server market competition will be more worthy of our expectations.





2007, Blade Server will also accelerate the pace of market utility. Driven by multi-core and Low-power Technologies, the overall performance will be focused on the development of more high-density, agile deployment and maintenance, all-round monitoring management, high scalability and high availability. And for the blade of the current market performance in the financial and telecommunications two major users more prominent. The 2007 is the first year when the domestic financial industry is in full swing, the competition between domestic and foreign banks will be formed, and the construction tide of informatization will be promoted.





and for the telecommunications industry, with the expansion of value-added services and deepening of the content and the impact of 3G license plate landing and other factors, will also set off a round of information investment peak. These factors will certainly pull the blade server into a similar rack-like server explosion in 2007.





second, blade server manufacturer's development strategy





2007 Blade Server manufacturers at home and abroad have their own development strategy, the following mainly to IBM, HP, Sun and the dawn for the blade manufacturer representative as an example to illustrate. The IBM Blade Server will move to multiple platforms this year, with the exception of the x86 blade server using the intel® Xeon and AMD Opteron, and IBM will also launch a blade server with a POWER6 processor as the POWER6 processor is listed this year, To replace the original PowerPC processor.





June 20, IBM in Beijing announced a number of industry-leading BladeCenter new products and technology, and elaborated the "applicable, open, green, easy" four blade calculation of the development direction. This release enriches the IBM BladeCenter Blade Server family, especially the BladeCenter E and new product BladeCenter s and BladeCenter HC10 Blade workstations, which will further meet the specific needs of a wider range of customers in different areas. More importantly, IBM's groundbreaking expansion of the blade server's customer base has enabled more customers, especially SME customers, to take full advantage of the enterprise-level integration, flexibility and manageability provided by the blades.





with the application of Blade server gradually mature, single products can not meet the needs of various applications. To this end, IBM proposes that the blade calculation is being applied to (right), open (open), green, and relaxed (easy) four development directions. The "Applicable" sex is the primary problem that customers in different fields need to consider when choosing a blade server.





Enterprises only clear their own application characteristics, to find the corresponding architecture design, adopt the modular concept, and have the enterprise-class reliability of the product program to successfully build a personalized blade system; At the same time, with the power system constraints and awareness of energy-saving and environmental protection, energy problems are increasingly concerned by enterprises, so the blade server " Green "Theme is one of its important application advantages, and" open "compatible infrastructure and easy to use, easy to deploy, easy to integrate, simplified management will be the key to the future development of the blade server. A new generation of blade servers must be "applicable, open, green, easy" enterprise-class products to meet the needs of all types of customers today and the future of computing demand. IBM has made perfect interpretations in these four areas through continuous technological innovation, and has brought unprecedented new experiences and higher value to users.





in 2007 HP Blade System China Technology Summit, HP proposed blade system and its new generation of data center, cooling and refrigeration, virtualization and other up-to-date technology and concepts, the latest HP BladeSystem C-class future technology to maximize the simplification of control and improve management efficiency, Better provide adaptable infrastructure support to your business. HP Blade System Strategy "blade modifiable (insert any device)". In addition to blade servers and blades workstations, this year will expand the application level of blades, allowing the C-series blade servers to start using Itanium processors. The second half of the year may launch Bladepc, the new blade storage and the first tape blade, so that the application of the blade into HP's product line.