Not many people have heard of Blade Servers. Basically they offer companies the ability to modularly build servers while saving money and space yet at the same time allowing you to expand and manage your sever as your company grows. Blade servers consist of stripped down motherboards units, which are called blade servers. The difference between blade server motherboards and your typical home computer are many. Each server is a complete computer in itself, yet offers only crucial processing and storage functionality.

If you find your business continually growing then Blade servers will be the way you want to go. Traditional rack servers have a huge initial investment, take literarlly an entire room’s worth of space and run hot all the time. Not to mention that expanding them can be costly and take valuable office space from employees. I’ve actually worked at a company that turned a few offices into server rooms and moved the employee’s into cubicle. Let’s just say it didn’t do over well.

Blade server technology was initially developed in the early millennium through a partnership between IBM and Intel. Later, a number of major companies, led by IBM, formed an “industry community” in February 2006, with a website base at blade.org. The mission of the community is to “accelerate the growth and adoption of [blade] technologies in the market.”

Blade server technology was initially developed in the early millennium through a partnership between IBM and Intel. Later, a number of major companies, led by IBM, formed an “industry community” in February 2006, with a website base at blade.org. The mission of the community is to “accelerate the growth and adoption of [blade] technologies in the market.”

Many computer manufacturers has joined IBM and Intel in blade server manufacture. Some of the major players in the field include HP, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Dell and Hitachi.

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