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Cloudflare has joined the ranks of operators that believe baseboard management controllers (BMCs) no longer belong on server motherboards. The internet-taming company on Tuesday revealed its stance in a post by electrical hardware engineer Xiaomin Shen and senior hardware systems engineer JQ Lau, who together explain that BMCs …

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  1. sev.monster Silver badge

    Wow, almost as if Dell's iDRAC (in older gens) and other such removable & replaceable BMC solutions were actually a good idea! Sadly it wasn't making money, not having to replace entire server boards when iDRAC had issues, so they started embedding it. Or so I assume.

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