Blade Models
Though many independent professional computer manufacturers such as Supermicro offer blade solutions, the blade server market continues to be dominated by large public IT companies such as HP, which, as of Q1 2011, owns 50.0% market share, with IBM coming in 2nd with 20.2%, followed by Cisco with 9.4% and Dell with 8.4%. Other competitors include Oracle (due to its purchase of Sun Microsystems), and Fujitsu.
HP's current line consists of two chassis models, the c3000 which holds up to 8 half height ProLiant line blades (also available in tower form), and the c7000 (10U) which holds up to 16 half height ProLiant blades. Dell's latest solution, the M1000e is a 10U modular enclosure and holds up to sixteen half-height PowerEdge blade servers.
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