
IBM is planning to use a combination of services and incentives to entice customers currently using rival blade servers onto its BladeCenter platform. <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2017893,00.asp?kc=EWINFEMNL092006EOAD">IBM's Blade Migration Center</A> is designed to steal away business from Hewlett-Packard and Dell and give IBM a greater lead in the fastest-growing segment of the server space, a space that analyst firm IDC is predicting to swell from $2.2 billion in 2005 to $10 billion in 2010.