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Open Blade Servers?

Posted by timothy on from the extensible dept.

Greg Smith points to this ZDNet story on new Intel chips aimed at blade servers, writing "Proprietary blade servers are coming on strong from IBM, Dell and HP. Where are the open blade servers? How did Google roll out 10,000 servers at such a low cost?"

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  1. Re:blade server by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Usually the shared components are redundant. So instead of 20 power supplies for 10 machines, you have 2.