This paper examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, UK and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection between enterprise data center management and agility goals and blade server use. It reveals that blade servers are highly associated with core infrastructure consolidation and optimization efforts and offer high value to users as a virtualization platform and means of reducing OpEx.
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