IBM scooped up Blade Networks today. IBM anticipates increasingly dense blade server sales. HP has been pretty public about its intention to push Blade Networks aside. IBM is also probably anticipating a technology change in the HPC market as 40 and 100 gigabit Ethernet replaces Infiniband. With Blade, IBM can deliver a data center unit — complete with memory, processors, and networking/storage I/O — in a tightly-integrated can. My guess is that the acquisition price was fair but not overly generous.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2227277/ibm-buys-blade-networks—-an-obvious-marriage.html