http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/blade-servers/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/blade-servers/#comment-61532 wrobinson Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:56:23 +0000 #comment-61532 Blade servers allow you to achieve greater density, by packing more computer power into the same amount of, or less space than traditional servers. Blade servers share a common infrastructure (case/housing, cabling, power, cooling, etc.) and servers are inserted and removed in ‘blades’ which in most cases are nothing more than circuit boards. The initial drawbacks were cost, power consumption, cooling requirements and technical complexity.

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