IDC OPINION
Blade clients - rackmounted boards that contain a full PC, including processor,
memory, hard drive, graphics, and operating system - deliver tangible and
substantive benefits for certain classes of users, notably high-density large enterprise,
security-conscious military, and high-availability departmental or enterprise
computing. These benefits take the form of:
Greater physical and data security
Higher uptime
Better worker environment noise and thermal characteristics
Reduced operating costs - average savings of users studied exceeded 40%.
Figure 1 illustrates the hard cost savings and productivity gains found in IDC's
study of ClearCube users.
Companies with high requirements for serviceability, security, availability, or low-noise
environments should consider a blade client solution for at least a part of their client
population.
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