Blade Servers Enhance Mission Critical Data Centers

December 15th, 2009

Information technology managers are assigning more mission-critical computing workloads to blade server systems today.  Blades are the fastest-selling product segment in the global server market as their multicore processors and virtualized software increase computing power and enable their infrastructure density to grow.  As GSS America Infotech, a datacenter management and consolidation services company, works with clients to eliminate information “silos” within the enterprise and improve IT flexibility, they more often recommend that mission-critical workloads be concentrated on blade servers.

The benefits from blade servers that GSS America listed include reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).  According to the GSS America services team, those features enable companies to avoid system downtime that results from data errors and memory corruption and are critical to ensuring uninterrupted service delivery of mission-critical business software.

Blades servers were initially introduced enterprise datacenters for the flexibility they provided IT infrastructures.  Companies could add blade servers on an as-needed basis and manage many blades within one chassis, which delivered operational benefits.  Today, GSS America reviews client requirements and will often recommend the deployment of a mix of blades that run different workloads and different operating systems – it’s not a black and white issue.  GSS America alliances with multiple software vendors enable clients to support disparate systems “under one roof” to reduce operational costs.

IT directors looking to have a broader range of workloads will use a blade server

Infrastructure to host mission-critical workloads on hardware specifically designed for business resilience.  Blade servers, along with the software environment running on that hardware, will provide a technology “stack” that protects software applications just as well as standalone tower or rack-optimized servers.  GSS America excellence in mission-critical system design addresses those issues by developing a platform that has been optimized to host any operating system listed, including HP-UX, Windows, Linux, HP OpenVMS, and HP NonStop.  The GSS America advantages create an environment that manages virtualized workloads and supports high availability hardware and software solutions.

Systems engineers investigating virtualized data center strategies and the use of blade servers to increase performance and stability can visit the GSS America press room on the company’s web site to review product information, technical specifications, and client success stories.  The company provides initial consultations without cost to new clients in which current IT configurations can be assessed and the potential for improvements evaluated.

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