Hype vs. Hope: 10 Things You Should Know About Buying Blade Servers

Do the glowing vendor claims surrounding server blades still stand if you cut out the marketing hype? Let’s find out.

Ken Hess

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

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As an IT Manager, you are likely inundated by positive-spin marketing and vendors touting that their solution is “better, more cost-effective, cheaper, more efficient” and so on. Blade Servers are the latest technology to fall prey to the hype, over-selling and marketing blitzes that follow any new or up and coming technology or product. What happens, though, if we dump the glossy marketing hype and boil-down the facts? Will a distilled overview of what blade servers can really do for you measure up to the claims? Let’s find out.

1. Blade Servers Use Less Power

This bit of hype may be true. In fact, they use up to 28% less wattage than conventional servers. The power in a blade enclosure spreads over the entire enclosure so that the most efficient power configuration is an enclosure full of Blades. The amount of power allocated to each Blade is…

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