A blade server is a server chassis housing multiple thin, modular electronic circuit boards, known as server blades. Each blade is a server in its own right, often dedicated to a single application. The blades are literally servers on a card, containing processors, memory, integrated network controllers, an optional fiber channel host bus adaptor (HBA) and other input/output (IO) ports.
IBM BladeCenter - The Right Choice
IBM BladeCenter - The Right Choice
A blade server is sometimes referred to as a high-density server and is typically used in a clustering of servers that are dedicated to a single task, such as:
File sharing
Web page serving and caching
SSL encrypting of Web communication
The transcoding of Web page content for smaller displays
Streaming audio and video content
File sharing
Web page serving and caching
SSL encrypting of Web communication
The transcoding of Web page content for smaller displays
Streaming audio and video content
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