IBM will unsheathe its first blade servers Tuesday, and with them a strategy for applying the blade concept to the design of networking equipment, storage devices and other products.
The IBM eServer BladeCenter is the company's homegrown entry into the burgeoning market for blades, ultrathin computers that stand vertically in specialized racks. In all, IBM can fit 84 of its blade servers, each containing two 2.4GHz Intel Xeon processors each, into a 6-foot rack. Typically, these racks can hold 42 servers at most.
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