Rackable also announced it's joining Blade.org, the industry consortium created in 2004 by IBM and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) that's trying to create open standards for blade servers. Up to now, all of the blades from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun have used their own design standards, meaning you can't install a Sun blade in an HP chassis, for example.
IBM has been an exception to that rule, opening its blades up and making the specs public. The first company to offer a third-party product is Themis, which offers a Sun UltraSPARC-based blade that works in a BladeCenter chassis.
"Openness has been a key part of our strategy for blades from day one," said Tim Dougherty, director of BladeCenter strategy at IBM. "We felt it's the right thing to do to expand the blade market."
The ICE Cube is available in 20- or 40-foot container sizes and can hold up to 1,344 dual-socket blades with quad-core Intel Xeons or 672 quad socket, dual-core AMD Opteron blades.
The BladeCenter chassis slots right into a Rackable ICE Cube, so long as you remember to remove the wheels that are on the chassis. It then uses the ICE Cube power and cooling system for operation and management.
IBM BladeCenter T and HT are available immediately via Rackable Systems and its channel partners
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