By doing more with less, you can realize savings and reduce complexity at the same time. IBM BladeCenter is a complete, compact and integrated system designed to simplify IT in small and mid-sized offices and distributed environments. It's packed with energy-saving features that lower operating costs and it's flexible enough to grow with your business.
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IBM BladeCenter: The right choiceOverview Realize innovationHighlights Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today's Your business needs continually change. IBM under-dynamic world, contain costs, deal with IT skill short- stands that there's no such thing as a one-size-?ts-all? Realize innovation with a ?exible architecture ages and take full advantage of new technologies. In solution. To meet your broad and diverse needs, youthat lets you choose the right solution for short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure want your IT infrastructure to be ?exible and modularbusiness advantage for business success. You need to make the right and you need a solution that best works for your busi-choice for today and for tomorrow. With its industry- ness. BladeCenter offers a comprehensive portfolio of? Manage complexity and growth with easy leading ?exibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for chassis, blade servers, switches and fabrics-all man-deployment using IBM BladeCenter® Open your business. aged from a common infrastructure.Fabric Manager
By integrating servers, storage and networking, Like IBM System xT servers, many BladeCenter? Go green and save with energy-ef?cient fea- BladeCenter is helping companies in every industry servers are built on IBM X-Architecture® for enterprise-tures and fewer extras to buy sweep complexity aside. The blades contain all the class reliability. X-Architecture is the IBM blueprint fornecessities to run an application-processors, memory, bringing innovation to x86 systems-innovation that? Start smart with IBM BladeCenter-the inte- I/O and storage. The chassis contains shared redun- helps set you apart from the competition. The result isgrated system for small of?ces and distrib- dant power, shared hot-swap cooling, DVD, integrated open, industry-standard servers on which you feel con-uted environments Ethernet, storage, switching and consolidated powerful ?dent running your business-critical workloads. So youmanagement. can innovate for your business advantage.
Its innovative, open design offers a true alternative to Manage complexity, growth and risktoday's sprawling racks and overheated server rooms. You want a ?exible business foundation that is bothSo toss out your cables. You have nothing to lose but open and innovative. BladeCenter delivers. Choosecomplexity. from many offerings de?ned by Blade.org and createdby other members of the most extensive organizationfor blade solutions.Match your data center needs with the appropriate And of course, there's no need to redo your network New BladeCenter HS21 XM models embedded withinterconnect, selecting from multiple I/O fabrics. standards. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager works VMware ESXi 3.5 (formerly VMware ESX Server 3i)IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric is an integrated server across the BladeCenter family of chassis and switches. raise the bar on virtualization. This intelligent, I/O portfolio that provides a comprehensive set of inter- Its simple graphic user interface checks network integrated solution makes the transition to virtualizationconnects and smart management tools. Its new pass- con?icts- helping you save even more time. Con?gure easier to manage, going from booting the server tothrough capability not only improves and simpli?es SAN once. That's it. deploying virtual machines in a matter of minutes.interoperability and scalability, but it also helps you IBM BladeCenter JS22 includes built-in PowerVMTreduce cabling and its subsequent costs. Plus, it is BladeCenter is also designed with extensive redun- and integrated virtualization manager to make it easy tosupported by multiple vendors, so you can match the dancy to help reduce failures. Unlike some competitive consolidate workloads using a browser-based inter-solution to your standards. products, BladeCenter servers provide dual I/O and face. BladeCenter makes virtualization easy and man-dual power connections to the chassis for enterprise- ageable with these two new offerings.The new IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager class reliability to keep your business up and running.makes it even easier to deploy your blades with pre- Go green and savecon?gured connections and a simple graphic user Virtualizing on BladeCenter allows you to create a You want to control your power and cooling environ-interface. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager auto- highly ?exible infrastructure that can qu... [download for more]
