Power Assure?s Software To Make Cisco Blade Servers More Energy Efficient

At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing today, Power Assure ? a green IT business from Santa Clara, Calif. ? revealed that its energy management software is now compatible with Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) Blade servers. According to Jed Scaramella, a research manager for servers at IDC, here's how fast blade servers, in general, are gaining traction in the market:

In 2010, the server blade market in the U.S. was $2.7 billion, representing approximately 14 percent of the U.S. server market... [IDC] expects the blade segment to grow 19.8 percent in 2011 to $3.2 billion in the U.S - compared to the total U.S. server growth of 2.4 percent. On a worldwide level, the blade market is expected to grow 22.4 percent in revenue over the next year to $7.3 billion, which is relative to total server worldwide revenue growth of 3.5 percent...

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