Apr 25, 2002 : IBM to Offer Blade Servers in Q3

📅 April 25, 2002 - Technology giant IBM (IBM.com) said today it planned to introduce a blade system aimed both at service providers and enterprise systems by the third quarter of 2002.

Blade servers, which are quickly becoming popular among service providers, are smaller systems that can be stacked in to modified racks with other blade servers, thereby sharing power requirements and network capabilities. Service providers like blade servers for their efficiency and scalability.
IBM said that although most vendors are currently targeting their blade server offerings at edge applications and specialized markets like telcos and service providers, the company believed there is the potential to offer the technology to a wider range of customers.
"IBM will deliver a sophisticated platform with a much broader appeal for enterprise customers in addition to specialized markets," the company said in a release.
The new system, titled eServer BladeCenter, will feature the Intel Xeon DP processor. Intel's Itanium and IBM's POWER processors will eventually be added as well. BladeCenter will support both the Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
"The benefit of the blade architecture is to reduce cost and complexity - not performance and reliability. We intend to incorporate IBM's high-performance computing power, self-managing technology, and mainframe-class reliability features into our blade systems," said Tom Jarosh, VP Business Development and Blade Servers at IBM. "As a pioneer of other important modular and high density architectures in our mainframe, UNIX, and Intel-based systems and clusters, we are committed to developing a very robust blade platform."

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