Server packaging options: Towers, racks and blades

Server Packaging
Servers come in a number of physical form factors or packaging, including:

Here is a brief summary of these physical form factors and where to use them:

The following table further describes and compares these three packaging options.

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Pete Wilson is Chief Scientist of Kiva Design, a small consultancy and research company specializing in issues surrounding the move to multi-core computing platforms, with special emphasis on the embedded space. Prior to that, he spent seven years at Motorola/Freescale.

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