The required datacenter capacity cannot be served effectively with current datacenter and server architectures.

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More than a decade later, HP was granted one of the first patents for blade server architectures.

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Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.

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However, with increasing server computing capacity and virtualization, multiple workloads per physical server are common in cloud architectures.

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