Vendor Management Strategies for the CIOAll-in-One Guides:Blade Server Reseller Guide
Blade Server Reseller Guide
This Blade Server Reseller Guide will help technology channel professionals understand, sell and deploy blade servers in their customers' shops. Advice in these chapters also covers how to run blade servers on Linux, using blade servers for virtualization, and storage blades.
New in this guide
- Blade server channel opportunities: HP, IBM, Dell? (Selling Blades)
- Blade server technologies for scalable processing power (Blade server technologies)
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Blade Server Quiz
Now that you've read our Blade Server Reseller Guide, test your knowledge of blade server technology with this quick quiz.
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Security
Blade server security is not unlike rack or standalone server security, but here you'll find a few ways to ensure a secure blade server environment.
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Selling Blades
To successfully sell blade servers you must first identify ideal blade server candidates, then convey how deploying blade servers will benefit their environments. This chapter provides blade server selling points.
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Storage
Storage blades can help you address your customers' storage capacity and interconnect needs. This chapter presents storage blade technologies and benefits.
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Technologies
Blade server technologies are considered cost-effective and virtualization-friendly by server experts. Get a better understanding of blade servers and their scalable processing power in this chapter.
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Virtualization
Blade servers were once low-power, specific-function technologies that didn't offer the capabilities of rack servers and, therefore, were not good for virtualization. That's no longer the case. Find out why your customers should virtualize on blades.
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Linux-Blade Server Reseller Guide
64-bit blade servers nicely complement Linux distributions that help increase IT stability, security and processing power. Get an introduction on why and how to work with Linux on blade servers.