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Updated: June 7, 2004
Blades servers continue to gain acceptance in enterprises as companies look to server consolidation to lower costs and increase utilization. IDC is predicting that blades will rise from about 4 percent of servers sold to at least 25 percent by 2008. Blade servers include processors and memory on a single board, but cooling, power, storage, and network connections are accessed through a backplane and can be shared among a collection of blades. For companies that need a flexible and more manageable model for scaling out server capacity, blades should be given careful consideration. 
Servers today--and tomorrow
Videocast: Among the benefits of blade compared to traditional servers are reduced deployment times; enhanced provisioning of OSs, applications and patches; lower system management costs; and improved system security, reliability and availability. In this videocast, IDC Senior Research Manager John Humphreys discusses the current state of blade servers and provides a roadmap for where the technology is headed.
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