After more than a decade of increases in the size of IT environments due to the proliferation of systems, devices, storage, and management tools, IT complexity has reached an all-time high. Today, day-to-day business operations are integrated with IT and datacenters. IT is seen as a way to gain a competitive advantage in the market versus simply supporting business functions. IT applications and services are an increasingly common way companies interact with clients and employees, as well as a new way to research markets and develop new products. The integrated nature of the blade platform delivers critically needed efficiencies in system management, monitoring, and provisioning.