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Allan Leinwand on "Who will control the next data center"

Finally I see how Allan looks like :-) Here's what he had to say:

The main contender for control of the enterprise data center are the blade server vendors: IBM, HP, Rackable, Verari and others. The movement toward blade servers for manageability and lower overall lower total cost of ownership has been underway for a number of years. As these blade servers get more powerful and at the same time more power and cooling efficient, organizations will be spending a significant amount of money on these devices – and that gives these vendors a step up on building trust and control in the enterprise data center. A number of CIOs that I have spoken with agree with this sentiment but are looking for these vendors to provide better manageability features for their blade servers. As you may expect, the benefits of trusting the control of your data center to a server vendor increases significantly if you have a homogenous implementation.


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