When will the blade standardization arrive?

Now that Dell has entered the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13737.html "> Blade Server for a year or two, is it now possible to say that Dell has succeeded in the blade field, or is it succeeding?" If so, what's the problem with Dale now?

A Dell product manager has said that although SME users are now starting to buy blades, the biggest customers are large enterprises. Small businesses, such as graphics studios, use blades to obtain high-density computing power, but the user is rare.

At present the blade problem is mainly focused on the blade of the sales model, once purchased a manufacturer's blade chassis, then you can only buy this manufacturer's blades, you cannot use other brand blades in this blade chassis. Even if the same manufacturer's blades, you may not be able to use all the models. There is no news that the blades are compatible with each other, even though the market needs them.

Dell's product Manager supports this compatible design, but Dell's rivals HP and IBM have yet to make the switch. Two blade market leaders in the blade standards can not be unified, each has a set of closed blade standards, are also trying to convert their own standards to the industry consistent blade standards, the blade compatible with this dream is still far away. Although Dell has a strong desire for blade compatibility, there is a need for the blade to form a uniform standard from both the market and the user's point of view, but the idea is not yet realistic.

In the past, the understanding of blade server should be in the high computational density, space-saving, easy to centralize management applications. As application requirements increase, more and more smart devices are added to the network, taking into account total cost of ownership (TCO), and enterprises must avoid uncontrolled growth of devices such as PCs, servers, storage, and networking. As a result, the concept of IT infrastructure simplification has made the blade server trend.

Blade servers have been gradually known to users. High-density deployment is the future development of the server trend, which has begun to be accepted by the vast number of users, blade server is gradually in large data centers, High-performance Computing and network games and other fields are widely used.