Customers cut to the chase with blades

24.10.2006

Australian IBM customers that have adopted blades include the Flight Centre and Weta Digital.

The Flight Centre selected blades to cope with rapid expansion and was able to reduce its data center from 20 racks to six blade chassis.

Janjic said the travel company saved 60 percent of forecasted capital expenditure and completed the migration in half the projected time.

"Blade computing is a major departure from the way servers have been deployed in the past; it's not just a server, but an infrastructure replacement encompassing server, networking and storage," he said.

"Companies are able to get more computing power for the same or less floor space, with reduced power and cooling requirements. In today's market of high real estate and power prices, this provides a significant cost benefit for customers."