International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) will seek to push its blade servers to small and medium-sized businesses with the release of a package of multiple storage devices on a single blade-based box.
Blades, which IBM has manufactured for some time, have become increasingly attractive because they are considered relatively cost and energy efficient.
"We already had a blade chassis for small to medium-sized businesses, but what we've added is the ability to share the storage between all the blades," Alex Yost, vice president for IBM BladeCenter, said.
IBM, along with other hardware manufacturers, is banking on the growth of the blade market. It has already created blade.org, a program aimed at providing development help to start-ups which target this space. Yost said the market for selling blades to small businesses was largely untapped.
IBM was the world's largest server vendor globally in the second quarter of 2008, according to data from IDC, which tracks market share data, although Palo Alto, Calif.-based, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) was the world's largest blade server vendor, with 53.3% market share compared with IBM's 24.8%.
Source:money.cnn.com
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