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Are Blades right for your customers?

A perception has grown among SMBs that blade technology is either too complex or too expensive for their needs. In reality however, the primary values blade servers bring to the table are simplicity, flexibility, and affordability - making them ideal components of any business's IT infrastructure. Although many businesses have relied on rack-mount servers for years to meet their IT infrastructure needs, today there are many circumstances where blade servers might just be a better solution. Specifically, businesses that face physical space restrictions, IT resource limitations, or budgetary constraints may find that blade servers meet their needs in a way that rack-mounted servers simply can't.

Why? Because blade servers perform the same function as rack servers while adding several compelling advantages for growing businesses:

• they require less floor space
• they use less power
• they can cost less to operate
• they're easier to manage.

Furthermore, unlike individual rack-mount solutions, blade servers use a consistent, modular, integrated approach that is easy to deploy and easy to change. Affordable and scalable, a blade infrastructure is ideally suited for companies looking to grow their IT assets incrementally, consolidate to a standardised platform, or build a new business with limited resources.

For more detailed analysis of the cost benefits of blade servers, download: HP BladeSystem: Building the Business Case for Adopting the HP BladeSystem in the Data Centre.