Comment: Software key to blade success

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Firms looking to deploy blade servers will base their purchasing decisions more on the availability of good management tools than on hardware performance, says Martin Banks

The hype about modular, rack-mounted blade servers is all very well, but such systems represent only a tiny proportion of the servers currently being sold. Recent research by market watcher IDC sug...

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