infrastructure

Bricks or blades?

Bricks (standard rack-mount servers) are a known entity. You’ve been buying and deploying them forever. You are comfortable with bricks.

Blades (blade servers) are cool. They’re small. They look really neat in your rack. Your vendor really wants you to buy blades.

The question is, which platform is right for your virtual infrastructure? I’m here to say that, for the majority of environments, blades are the right answer. Why’s that, you ask? Well, it’s really pretty simple. Virtualization is all about simplifying your environment. It’s about having consistency in platform and in process/procedure. It’s about rapid provisioning and rapid recovery from failures. It’s all about commoditizing your IT infrastructure to enhance support to your line of business applications.

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