Blade Servers - IMEX Research
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Challenges of <strong>Blade</strong>s and Networked Storage ..........................................................................27<br />
Enterprise Class Reliability ........................................................................................................28<br />
Data Security..............................................................................................................................28<br />
Industry Road Map ......................................................................... 29<br />
1st Generation <strong>Blade</strong> <strong>Servers</strong> .................................................................................. 29<br />
Features .....................................................................................................................................29<br />
2nd Generation <strong>Blade</strong> <strong>Servers</strong>................................................................................. 29<br />
Second wave..............................................................................................................................29<br />
Cost/tpm-c for Intel Industry Standard <strong>Servers</strong> vs. RISC <strong>Servers</strong>.............................................30<br />
IP Everywhere - the Holy Grail ...................................................... 30<br />
3. Market Segmentation & Product Requirements<br />
Market Overview............................................................................... 3<br />
Market Segmentation by Application ........................................................................ 3<br />
Market Segmentation ....................................................................... 4<br />
Market Segmentation by 3 Tier Computing .............................................................. 4<br />
Tier-1 Edge Computing ..............................................................................................................4<br />
Tier 2 Application <strong>Servers</strong>..........................................................................................................4<br />
Tier-3 Back End Data Base <strong>Servers</strong> ..........................................................................................4<br />
Product Requirements by Tiers-1, -2 & -3 Computing............................................. 5<br />
Market Requirements in Tiered Computing .................................................................................5<br />
Sizing of I/O Traffic in Tiered Computing .....................................................................................6<br />
Computer Architectures - Scale-Up vs. Scale-Out ........................ 6<br />
Market Segments by Platforms ....................................................... 6<br />
Product Requirements by Platforms .............................................. 8<br />
<strong>Blade</strong> <strong>Servers</strong>:Storage Requirements....................................................................... 8<br />
Server <strong>Blade</strong> Interconnect Requirements................................................................. 8<br />
<strong>Blade</strong>s: “The Key Attribute is Making Data Centers Cost Less” ..................................................8<br />
Interconnect for Server, Switch, Storage I/O <strong>Blade</strong>s ...................................................................8<br />
InfiniBandTM Switch Fabric Advantages .....................................................................................8<br />
Market Segmentation by Applications ........................................... 8<br />
HPC - Enterprise/DB ..................................................................................................................10<br />
High Performance Computing ................................................................................. 11<br />
Situation..................................................................................................................... 12<br />
Scale-Out Approach to Problem Solving ...................................................................................12<br />
Scale-Up Versus Scale-Out .......................................................................................................12<br />
Solution...................................................................................................................... 13<br />
High-Performance Relational Data Storage...............................................................................13<br />
Scale-Up Parallelism..................................................................................................................14<br />
Web Service-based Architectures..............................................................................................14<br />
Benefits...................................................................................................................... 14<br />
Performance and Utilization Improvements ...............................................................................15<br />
Improved Productivity.................................................................................................................15<br />
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