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Blade runner
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07/03/2008
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The challenge of finding ever more powerful servers to assist the communication data centre’s growing demands for more processing power from increasingly smaller rack sizes means system designers constantly need to be on their guard.
However, blade servers – or blades – can now help them cut their rack space problems, slash server and application deployment times, reduce power consumption and pack a more powerful server punch within the same data centre walls.
Blades don’t have the standard bulky and redundant components found on each rack server. Instead, a blade enclosure provides common interface resources to all blades on a rack, such as cabling, power supplies, cooling components and so on.
With one chassis serving a rack of blades, cabling is simplified and consumes less space. Traditional cabling can slow deployment because customers have to ensure cables are attached correctly and located on the right side of the rack. A tangled nest of cabling can also cause heating problems by restricting airflow.
One company looking to cut the traditional server down to size is custom computer engineer’s, Sight Systems. Having recently undergone a management buyout, the Worthing based company is using its experience in providing bespoke IT solutions to design and build off the shelf solutions. They are now set to move to larger premises and take on more production staff in order to cope with the anticipated increased demand for its latest innovation in blade server technology – OctoBlade.
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Author
Mike Richardson
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