There’s no doubt that the benefits of moving to a blade environment are endless: reduced space requirements, discounted cooling costs and lower management costs to name but a few of the top reasons that I hear on daily basis from partners.
With talk of ‘future proofing’ and ‘easier physical deployment’, networking can often be the last thing to cross an enthusiastic IT administrators mind. But it should be. With most blade vendors it tends to be required that you use their switches in conjunction with the NIC’s in their blade systems. Dell’s new blade systems offer switch independence meaning no matter which switching infrastructure you have in place, you can stick with it.
In addition to it’s independence, their new technology will also offer NIC partitioning which would mean each physical 10GB ethernet port can be divided up into 4 x NIC’s totalling 10GB which can then be offered up to both physical and virtual environments.
Dell receive alot of loyalty from the public sector, the flexibility that this technology brings should bring a warm reception.
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