Thursday, 19 July 2007

IBM Adds Flash Technology In New Blades

IBM said using the solid state drives should allow the BladeCentre HS21 XM to gain power savings of up to 18W per blade, that comes up to 252W per chassis or 1,512W per server rack...

IBM will offer Flash-based SanDisk solid state drives in its blade servers. IBM said using the solid state drives should allow the BladeCentre HS21 XM to gain power savings of up to 18W per blade, that comes up to 252W per chassis or 1,512W per server rack.

According to IDC, blade servers are the fastest growing sector of the server market, with revenues projected to surpass USD11 billion by 2010.

"IBM is the first major blade vendor to deliver enterprise-class solid state storage within blade servers," said Scott Tease, worldwide marketing manager for IBM BladeCentre.