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Oct 15 2009   2:12PM GMT

Blades vs. rack servers: A different perspective



Posted by: Colin Steele
Blade servers, Rack servers, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM

Our recent blades vs. rack servers face-off between Chris House and Rick Vanover has spurred some hot debate. Virtualization blogger Aaron Delp, a senior engineer at ePlus Technology, submitted this response on the topic of blades vs. rack servers:

Here is how I see the rack vs. blades debate: No solution is right all the time! There are situations in which racks are better, and there are situations where blades are better.

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