Posted on Thursday, August 24th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Blade servers, by their very nature, do not ship with any internal storage capacity, and with IDC predicting that, over the next three years, blades will account for 25% of all servers shipped, more and more of the storage shipped will be external. Moreover, blade servers are much more likely to be used alongside a storage area network, leading AG Edwards analyst, Aaron Rakers, to conclude: “Blade servers equals high networked storage attachment.”
