IBM, Rackable Team Up on Blades

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The ICE Cube is available in 20- or 40-foot container sizes and canhold up to 1,344 dual-socket blades with quad-core Intel Xeons or672 quad socket, dual-core AMD Opteron blades.
The BladeCenter chassis slots right into a Rackable ICE Cube, solong as you remember to remove the wheels that are on the chassis.It then uses the ICE Cube power and cooling system for operationand management.
IBM BladeCenter T and HT are available immediately via RackableSystems and its channel partners.

Open source blades?
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. Upto now, all of the blades from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun haveused their own design standards, meaning you can't install a Sunblade in an HP chassis, for example.
IBM has been an exception to that rule, opening its blades up andmaking the specs public. The first company to offer a third-partyproduct is Themis, which offers a Sun UltraSPARC-based blade thatworks in a BladeCenter chassis.
"Openness has been a key part of our strategy for blades from dayone," said Tim Dougherty, director of BladeCenter strategy at IBM."We felt it's the right thing to do to expand the blade market."