brick server

Like blade servers, brick servers are intended to fit in multiple numbers into a rack that provides a shared backplane. Blade and brick servers allow more servers to be contained in the same floor space than the more conventional pizza box servers with a chassis. The term, used by Dell and others, suggests that a brick server, when available, will be more brick-like in shape than a blade server.

Dell refers to a brick server as a "super-blade server."

Read more about brick server: - Learn on the go: Listen to our podcast to learn more about the potential of blade servers. - Network Magazine has an article about blade and brick servers called "The next cut."

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