Licensing

The terminology Check Point uses for licensing is a bit weird, but that’s because it was using the term “containers” way before its virtualization namesake existed. The same goes for the term “blade,” which originally referred to pluggable modular servers dedicated to running specific applications.

Both terms seem a bit outdated since, with the resurgence of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), there are now chassis of blades. These are provisioned as universal resource nodes and are often used to run container hosts which, in turn, running containers rather than being function-specific. This is the exact opposite of the terminology that’s used by Check Point and is a source of increasing consternation among younger technologists not familiar with the terms’ historical connotations.

Containers and blades

Containers are defined by their size and the types of blades they can contain.

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