IBM taunts SMBs with new blade box

IBM later this year plans to dish out a "desktop" blade box for small- to medium-sized businesses. The BladeCenter S chassis eats up 7U of rack space and only has room for six blade servers. That compares to IBM's big business package of 14 blades in a 9U chassis. As mentioned, however, the Blade Center S box doesn't demand a …

[tim]

So how will a 110V server be more useful on the desk?

Maybe in the US, but this is a .co.uk site....

[Virgil]

Only 6 blades - because it has local storage

Supposedly there is capacity for 12 local SCSI/SAS disks in the chassis, so you can have a non-SAN attached solution with real disks.