The joint Intel-IBM effort to provide standard building blocks for blade solutions should provide an extra layer of comfort for customers who had been wary about using non-standard components in an enterprise, Arun said.
Motherboard, component and barebones system provider Supermicro has already positioned itself to take advantage of Intel's decision to aggressively push blade solutions into the North American system builder channel, said Charles Liang, chairman and CEO of the San Jose, Calif.-based company.
Liang said his company is offering a blade server design based on a 7U form factor, which supports 14 dual-processor Xeon CPUs and a redundant, 10-Gbyte backplane. Liang also said he sees the Intel-based blade solutions receiving a strong welcome in the channel.
"We have many customer commitments to adopt our blade product in their upcoming teraflow systems, as well as a handful of Fortune 500 companies' enterprise applications," Liang said.
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