Modular Computing confluences Servers, Storage & Networking Infrastructure for optimum Applications Provisioning

Modular Computing, using industry standard servers, clustering technology, virtualization and application provisioning, is creating the next paradigm in computing and communications infrastructures that portends to drastically revamp the existing data center and internet landscape.

Volume Driven Economics
Blade Servers' attractiveness stems from the volume-driven economics achieved through using industry standard high-volume 2, 4 and 8+ way SMP compute elements. These elements can be configured and optimized as server, storage, networking or telecom modules.

These modular servers can be architected to achieve High Availability (failovers and self-healing), Scalability (simple add-ins), Performance (like Oracle parallel servers), Interoperability (Heterogeneity - Mainframes, UNIX, Windows and Linux platforms and Applications), Connectivity - ESCON, Fibre Channel, iSCSI), Manageability (Autonomics, remote web based, CIM/WBEM standards) and Security (IPsec, WBEM) for provisioning of applications in 4-tiered Computing Infrastructures. Already, a number of top 500 scientific computers are using Linux Clusters to achieve scalability and high performance at a fraction of the cost of previous multimillion-dollar scientific behemoths.

Autonomics & Application Provisioning
The next waves in modular computing in the next three years would bring Autonomics and Adaptive Management (Self Configuring, Self Optimizing, Self Healing, etc.), Scalability, Virtualization and Application Provisioning for enhanced price/performance will radically change the economics of computing and web services, according to Anil Vasudeva, Principal Analyst at IMEX Research.

This industry update is drawn from the IMEX Research Report "Blade Servers - the next Tsunami in Computing & Communications 2003."

About IMEX Research

IMEX is a research and consulting company in technology markets with expertise in the fields of Blade Servers/Modular Computing, Network Storage (NAS/SAN/iSCSI), High Availability systems (Computing and Telecom), and Optimal Four-tiered Computing Infrastructure (Access, Web, Application and DB/Transaction Tiers).

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