Blade Systems Vendor Shortlist Tool

Author(s): John Sloan, Chris O'Connor, Carlene McCubbin

This tool allows enterprises to profile their blade system requirements and generate a rank-ordered vendor shortlist from a fixed list of vendors. Vendor profiles are based on Info-Tech’s recent in-depth review of the blade system market. The tool includes the following specific aspects of analysis:

  • Variable prioritization for product suitability based on features, usability, affordability, and architecture
  • Variable prioritization for vendor suitability based on viability, strategy, reach, and channel
  • Weightings to adjust the contribution of various suitability factors to overall vendor ranking
  • A self-sorted ranking list, based on user input, of blade system vendors


Narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy your organization’s requirements before sending out RFPs and scheduling vendor demonstrations.