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Is There a Thin Server in Your Future?

Someone once said you can never be too rich or too thin. Too rich is not in my future, so I thought I would talk ...

By Staff Writer | Updated on January 31, 2003

Someone once said you can never be too rich or too thin. Too rich is not in my future, so I thought I would talk about too thin this month thin servers, that is. Blade servers, which are essentially servers on a card, are starting to garner some interest and sales. I saw a research report (from Gartner) that predicts blade-server sales would jump from 84,000 units in 2002 to over one million in 2006. OK, I know I gave them a double yawn last month, but I suspect that thin is here to stay. I mean most servers are built on a desktop hardware model. That PC paradigm has been around for over 20 years. It is based on an open extensible architecture that allows a system to be extensively modified to suit any particular user or purpose. Isnt it time we started looking at building servers that are optimized to do only what they are required to do?

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