"has room for six blades and runs on wall power, or its high-end BladeCenter H chassis, which can hold 14 blades but requires 240-volt power."

Pardon? What kind of weakling system doesn't have 240v at the wall? Pansies.

The evidence seems to point to an American origin for this article, and in the glorious union they only have 120v available to normal sockets (I have no idea why - maybe they thought it was cheaper) hence the 'err what?' comments from people on the correct side of the Atlantic.

Anyway, sounds like a good idea, I hope IBM have many more.

PH 'cos she is also 'over there' and I suppose it's probably for the best that she is.

ttfn

I think you'll find that the BladeCemter H needs commando power to get the higher wattage,

"That wanna expand their revenues from blades."

"But SMB shops are pretty much allergic to SANs, not just because of the expense, but also because of the complexity and despite the obvious benefits of using shared storage for a bunch of servers."

Meh.