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IT organisations utilising blade servers need to be ready for changes in the technology, according to Gartner.

Blade-server growth will be limited during the next five years - despite the technology representing the fastest-growing segment of the server market, the analysts say.

This lack of growth will be due to continued, rapid change and a lack of standards.

While a compound annual growth rate of 19 per cent is predicted for blade shipments from 2007 through to 2012, this will not equal market domination, as blades only represented 10 per cent of shipments in 2007 and will only rise to 20 per cent in 2012.

However, Gartner did not want to put companies off buying the servers.

‘We are not suggesting that IT organisations stay away from blades - blades do address many problems in the data centre,’ said the vice president of Gartner, Andrew Butler.

‘What we are saying is that IT organisations adopting blades need to be prepared for further changes in this technology.

‘Blade servers have been a rapidly changing technology, and we fully expect this to continue, particularly during the next five years.’

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Network Solutions, a domain name firm that registers internet addresses used in its own searches, said it is doing nothing wrong and in fact prevents domain name scams.

The company said it prevented so-called front running, in which scammers take advantage of a five-day trial period domain names without paying for them.

“This is a customer protection measure to protect customers from frontrunners,” said Susan Wade, spokeswoman for Network Solutions.

The company has attracted negative attention however because it tracks terms entered into its search field and registers them itself before selling them for a higher fee.

Vice president of the company, Jonathan Nevett, said in response: “Due to no fault of registrars, front runners purchase search data from internet service providers and/or registries and then taste those names.

“Some folks may not agree with our approach,” he said, “but we are trying to prevent this malicious activity from impacting our customers.”

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Apple’s much anticipated iPhone will go on sale in Britain tonight (November 9th) and sales will begin just after 18:00 GMT at 1,300 Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse stores - both on the high street and online.

Comprising a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod and an internet device, complete with multi-touch interface, the iPhone is bound to be a big hit, according to Apple. Costing £269, each iPhone comes with 8 GB of storage and will work with either a Mac or PC.

Each customer will be allowed to buy up to two iPhones on a first-come, first-served basis.

‘We can’t wait for our customers to get their hands on the iPhone this Friday night,’ said Ron Johnson, Apple’s retail vice president.

From February, third parties would be allowed to develop applications for the iPhone, although work still has to be done to tackle the problem of malware, viruses and privacy attacks, according to Apple.

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