Q: What energy savings can clients realize from blade server virtualization?
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Martin MacLeod is an IT consultant based in London with several years' experience deploying and supporting blade servers in volume. He also blogs at bladewatch.com, where he tracks news on blade servers, grids and virtualization. Listen to the rest of Martin's answers on blade server virtualization by downloading our blade server virtualization podcast.
There's been a lot of talk about energy savings from blade server virtualization, and one of the main things people talk about are network switches. You can have one blade solution with integrated switches, which is more efficient, since you don't have all the patches coming off the back of the blade servers. You can also use a SAN, so everything's building on top of that SAN infrastructure. Not only does it save power, but your blade essentially becomes a headless processing unit.
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