“Typically, if you've got a single blade for a single desktop, those servers are going to be down two-thirds of the day after people head home -- and that represents a pretty significant infrastructure investment. IBM is making the pitch that if you can support the same number of desktops with one-eighth the number of servers, you're going to end up with much higher utilization of your IT infrastructure.”
“What makes this interesting is that this is not one-blade to one-user. One blade can support multiple employees: four or five at the low end and 12 to 15 on the high end. You can get a much higher density of users per blade than competing solutions.”
“Over time it could help bring the prices of drives down more so than we've seen up until now. It's really interesting to see those two get together after so long. At the same time, it's probably evidence of a coup de grace on the whole concept of disk drives becoming commodity products.”
