Absence Highlights Change Series: Power, Part 1
By Teejay Riedl on Apr 28, 2011.
Now, I’m not bashing anybody… but in early 2003, I did some beer-coaster calculations of the trends in power consumption caused by the advent of a new beast: blade servers. It seems the manufacturers had devised a way to jam an entire server’s electronics onto a blade, and stuff lots of those blades into a single chassis.