Crosby Blade Servers

Crosby announced today that is has committed to purchasing a number of Blade Servers within its data centre.

Matt Wilson M.D., said, our data centre is now 3 years old, and due to the change in technology once again, we have committed to purchasing a number of Blade servers that will reduce both power, space and cooling requirements, plus directly replace a number of servers now approaching 3 years old. We’ve committed to Netra ATCA (advanced telecom computing architecture) this is a blade server, manufactured by SUN, an industry leader within this sector. Over the next 6 months, we will also be replacing our network infrastructure with new Cisco PIX firewalls and Cisco access path equipment, to ensure maximum uptime for our customers and ensure Crosby are using the very latest technology in its data centre.

Steven Wilson, Technical Director said, a blade server is a server on a card. Rather than installing servers one at a time into a rack cabinet, network administrators can install a server card into a chassis that has multiple slots to hold these server cards. Often used by internet service providers (ISPs) for Web hosting, "Ultra-dense" blade servers contain the highest number of processors possible based on the lowest size and thermal requirements. Netra ATCA (advanced telecom computing architecture) blade server is our preferred choice, and after a long trial with these products, we believe Netra is the correct product as a direct replacement in our data centre.

“Today we are committing to a major step toward enabling choice in the upcoming ATCA platform. This will be the first carrier grade Sun product to offer AMD Opteron and SPARC processor-based blades with the Solaris OS and Linux support to meet the needs of our customers. The combination will provide high performance carrier grade reliability with a lower total cost of development and ownership for IP-based telephony services, such as voice, video and data. Sun's Netra ATCA blade platform will allow us the flexibility to rapidly deploy revenue-generating services that can easily adapt to evolving marketplace needs."