In a bid to boost the credibility of the blade-server paradigm, which provide storage, networking and other functions in a small form factor, IBM and Intel jointly announced that the design specifications for the eServer BladeCenter platform would be made widely available to other vendors to encourage hardware support. IBM and Intel have already codeveloped products for their collaborative BladeCenter platform. The two companies said the move to open up the platform specifications was aimed at broadening the blade market by encouraging more third-party hardware and software.
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IBM, Intel Open Blade Server Platform
Posted by: Jay Lyman September 2, 2004 03:36 PMIn a bid to boost the credibility of the blade-server paradigm, which provide storage, networking and other functions in a small form factor, IBM and Intel jointly announced that the design specifications for the eServer BladeCenter platform would be made widely available to other vendors to encourage hardware support. IBM and Intel have already codeveloped products for their collaborative BladeCenter platform. The two companies said the move to open up the platform specifications was aimed at broadening the blade market by encouraging more third-party hardware and software.