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Enterprise on a blade: To general to be of any use for specific applications?

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Enterprise on a blade: To general to be of any use for specific applications?

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Today, we're continuing with reader feedback to our newsletter about convergence moving to an "enterprise on a blade" in which discrete boxes such as routers, switches and PBXs are replaced by services on a blade server. One reader commented: "Enterprise on a blade is asking a lot of ASIC development. Customers have always asked vendors for a 'godbox' and to a certain degree, networking vendors have delivered." We agree that vendors have delivered, and have been doing so for years but "to a certain degree." We also think that the godbox and ASIC solutions aren't always the best choice. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis.

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