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Blade Technology for Server Farms

Overview After the historic trend in server technology to increase the size of servers by the number of CPUs, the number of hard disks or PCI slots, it has been observed that the focus is on all-in-one solutions to modular systems separating processing power from storage capacity. Blade servers are only the first step on the way for computing power to become a commodity to sell, share and distribute at will. This paper describes the blade technology for Server Farms.

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Publisher	Fujitsu Ltd	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	March 2004	Downloads	19
Format	White Papers
Topics	Blades

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