In their efforts to overcome the technical challenges of blade servers, vendors have tended to go their separate ways. The Server System Infrastructure initiative seeks to find common ground. AS NEW DATA centres open, and existing ones upgrade, blade servers are emerging as the predominant processing engines filling their racks. As a result, blades are booming: the market showed signs of acceleration in the first quarter of 2008, with revenue growing 53.7 per cent year-on-year - the fastest growth rate in ten quarters - according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. Overall, bladed servers accounted for USD1.2bn sales in the first quarter, representing 9.2 per cent of quarterly server market revenue. Of the vendors, HP kept the top spot with 46.9 per cent market share, with IBM at number two with 30 per cent.
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