RE: Server Blade Summit 2007

April 27, 2007

IMEX Research will present a special keynote "Stare of the Blades & Virtualization Industry 2007"
at Server Blade Summit in Orange County California.

Virtualization & Blades for Computing and Telecom Come of Age
Driven by the lure of volume economics inherent in their scalable modular architecture plus the rapid adoption of virtualization in data centers, blades are ushering in a paradigm shift in the IT industry, enabling their adoption as Blade PCs, small to medium servers all the way to high performance supercomputers. Consolidation achieved through integration of industry standard servers, storage and network elements together with virtualization and autonomic management lie at the heart of this paradigm shift.

Integrated virtualized blade solutions have started to increase efficiencies and reduce total cost of ownership by as much as 60% in both IT Computing and IP Telecommunications infrastructures. As open standards further crystallize standardization at the physical and API interface levels, vendors are creating product differentiation at various levels of virtualization: and at the middleware, data management, and vertical industry solutions levels.

Server, Storage, and Networking Blades interconnected through a high speed fabric midplane in effect act as Local Area Grids (LAG©s) of today, showing up in Next generation Data Centers. They will, in the future, become the nodes connected in Wide Area Grids (WAG©s) at the Campus, Metro, and Long Haul environments and act as the infrastructure platform of choice converging computing and IP telecom industries.

"Blade Servers will continue to experience an explosive growth in the future, growing to 33% of all server shipments by 2010. The total market opportunity is projected to reach over $11.1 billion in blade systems by 2010 and $14.2 billion in Blade Systems and Services, opening up major opportunities for semiconductor, boards, interconnect fabrics, systems, middleware and services vendors and for associated venture investments” said Anil Vasudeva, Principal Analyst & Founder of IMEX Research, a technology markets research and consultancy company, based in San Jose, California.

The following is a complimentary copy of excerpted slides

For a full copy of the presentation please click here

Sincerely,

James Montantes
Marketing Manager
IMEX Research
(408) 268-0800
info@imexresearch.com

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