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Enterprise Systems Journal, July, 2002

MAKING SURE ITS upcoming blade offering gets mind share, IBM Corp. announced details of its upcoming blade server line, BladeCenter, in April. Big Blue expects to ship the Xeon-based products in the third quarter of this year.

IBM differentiates its blade offering from similar products from Compaq, HP and Dell in two ways. It will use higher-octane processors such as Intel's Xeon and its own Power architecture chips, rather than the mobile Pentiums used by the competition. Moreover, IBM plans to bundle an array of management hardware and software with the solution, bringing technologies it developed for the mainframe.

Blade servers are single-board servers that sit vertically in a chassis, allowing many simple servers to fit in a small space. Each...

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