Customers cut to the chase with blades

24.10.2006

As an IBM business partner Fujitsu has been actively involved in blade implementations and also believes interest is ramping up in the local market.

Fujitsu Queensland consultant Matt Tsin said a number of key factors sway customers when considering adoption.

"It is the ability to standardize to a common platform that is scalable, flexible and easy to manage," Tsin said.

"Environmental factors such as space, power and cooling are also important as there is a growing awareness of the environmental concerns of running a data center and the efficiency of BladeCentre is hard to match."

An industry group supporting customer moves to blade architecture is blade.org (www.blade.org) which brings together 75 companies to develop new blade-based solutions with interoperability and open standards as a priority.