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Standards-based blade servers due out this year
Standards-based blade servers due out this year, but without big names attached
By Bridget Botelho, News Writer 07 Apr 2009 / SearchDataCenter.com
A movement to standardize server blades and their components will bear fruit this year, but some notable brands will be missing.
The Server Systems Infrastructure (SSI) Forum said Tuesday that standards-based blade servers, chassis and components will be available by the end of 2009, but they won't come from blade server market leaders Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Dell Inc. or Sun Microsystems Inc.
So far, 30 other server and hardware component vendors have used the Server Systems Infrastructure Forum's standardization requirements for blade servers so that their blade hardware is interoperable. These companies, including American Megatrends Inc., Samsung, Intel Corp., and Super Micro, have already begun working on products, and by the end of 2009, IT pros will be able to buy blades, chassis and components like mezzanine cards, switching and I/O that are interchangeable, said Jim Ryan, an SSI chairman who also works for Intel.
"The whole reason we are doing this is to create a truly open and interoperable blade system so that users can interchange their blade servers within a chassis," Ryan said. "Today, you can't mix an HP and IBM blade component, but if these vendors comply with SSI, users will be able to."