This product line, despite its name, was not a blade server system.

Blade servers do not, however, provide the answer to every computing problem.

And blade servers don't solve that problem, because they cost more.

If you decide to go with blade servers, then you'll end up in one of two camps.

Under an agreement reached two years ago, the companies have worked together to design and manufacture blade servers.

The software is running on an expandable rack of blade servers.

About $1.2 billion in blade servers were sold last year, a figure expected to double this year.

On the blade server the login will be seen as coming through the serial port.

I.B.M. already works with many partners in its blade server business.

In some sense, this concept can be considered a logical extension of the blade server concept.

Depending on vendors, some blade servers may include or exclude internal storage devices.

Mount them sideways and call them blade servers.

A blade server enclosure might require 10U.

The concentration of circuitry means the blade servers occupy less space, but use more power and generate more heat.

Blade servers function well for specific purposes such as web hosting, virtualization, and cluster computing.

PowerEdge machines come configured as tower, rack-mounted, or blade servers.

He said the only innovation that vendors delivered with blade servers was "turning the servers 90 degrees."

Overall revenue grew 5 percent, helped mainly by a 45 percent increase in revenue from its blade servers.

Form factors for rack-mounted and blade servers may include precise external dimensions as well, since these cases must themselves fit in specific enclosures.

For example, a blade server enclosure, applications and storage can be brought together within a server by virtualization.

Other types, such as blade servers, include all the memory and processor performance of a server computer in a compact space-saving format.

Deploying blade servers (yields a 1 percent savings)

HP Virtual Connect brings virtualization to the blade server edge.

The mega computing lab is equipped with the following labs with high tech Blade servers.

For example a user wishing to access a blade server via the serial port can telnet to a network address and log in.