BladeS
Interoperability Data
Center
"Our ability to align Blade Systems Alliance
with both the end user community and world community that will be
responsible for both providing and using blade technology, with all of our
key committee structures, as well as an end user council to help guide our
future efforts, is reality. BladeSystems Insight has been instrumental
in our overall strategic mission of true community development, most
recently evidenced by the success of the second annual Tucson BladeSystems
Insight in May, co-produced with PPM Media. Our future is very bright
indeed."
~ Jim Hall, BladeS President ~
One of three racks in BladeS Data Center. This
one shows Xiotech hardware and IBM Blade Center.
Hosted by SpaceDev Inc. in Poway, CA, BladeS Interoperability Data
Center was broadcasted live at BladeSystems Insight '08 in Tucson,
AZ.
The first phase of this project consists of blade servers, Fibre Channel
SAN, environmental monitored racks and UPS, Ethernet routers and switches,
computers and cabling. Current equipment contributors are BladeS
member companies that include Emerson-Liebert, IBM, XIOTech, Emulex,
Brocade and APC. The project architect, Dennis Carlson, anticipates
additional contributions as the project progresses.
The Blade Systems Alliance Data Center provides a venue for members to
evaluate product compatibility. Secondarily, the Data Center retains
adequate computing resources, available on the internet, to support AITP
(Association of IT Professionals) and its student associations to host IT
projects of value to the educational community and their corporate sponsors.
The data center is also being used to research the environmental impact of
the products of the blade server community - a collaborative activity with
the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) who will publish the results of
BladeS research.
The BladeS Data Center adheres to the industry specifications developed
by the DMTF, SNIA, and their affiliated associations.
SpaceDev (OTCBB:SPDV) is an entrepreneurial space systems company that
develops high performance, innovative components and systems that are
changing how people get to, explore, and use space. The company's products
range from spacecraft actuators that power the Mars rovers, to hybrid rocket
technologies that powered the first commercial astronaut to space, and from
microsatellites controlled by the Internet to Dream Chaser™, a winged and
piloted orbital commercial spacecraft. SpaceDev products innovate, enable
and perform. http://www.spacedev.com.
All members of Blade Systems Alliance and its affiliated
associations can contribute and participate in the BladeS Data Center
project. For more information, contact BladeS@bladesystems.org.
