Application Note: Optimizing Blade Environments With IPStor™

Blade server technology is new, exciting, and is beginning to assert its presence in the world of storage. Why? Blade servers potentially hold tremendous benefits for enterprises – huge savings of physical space, energy efficiency, greater power, and improved flexibility. However, because they lack local disks, blade servers' full potential – and popularity – hinges on the performance characteristics and flexibility of the storage to which they are connected.

The logical question that follows is: what kind of storage architecture is best for blade servers? Logical answer: the storage area network (SAN). It's a natural union—simplified, ultra-consolidated blade server farm paired with simplified, consolidated storage farm (a.k.a., a SAN). However, the inherent limitations of typical SAN configurations impede the amazing potential of blade servers.

There is a solution: IPStor. On the cutting edge as always, IPStor storage networking infrastructure software is the only product that eliminates these limitations and optimizes SAN flexibility and performance, unlocking the potential of blade technology even beyond its theoretical expectations. With IPStor, the robust future of blade servers is here now.