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Flynn is seen here having simulated a "catastrophic failure," in this instance by physically pulling the blade from the rack. HP is selling its blade system on this point; in the event of a failure the system is able to assign the user a new blade "on the fly".
Due to the user's data being stored separate to the blade on a NAS, no data was lost. We didn't find out what would happen if the NAS failed.
In the event of such a catastrophic failure, HP can ship the administrator a new blade. "From the point of view of an IT administrator, you basically become a shopping cart," Flynn said.
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