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Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today’s dynamic world, contain costs, deal with IT skill shortages and take full advantage of new technologies. In short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure for business success. You need to make the right choice for today and for tomorrow. With its industry-leading flexibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for your business.
By integrating servers, storage and networking, BladeCenter is helping companies in every industry sweep complexity aside. The blades contain all the necessities to run an application— processors, memory, I/O and storage. The chassis contains shared redundant power, shared hot-swap cooling, DVD, integrated Ethernet, storage, switching and consolidated powerful management.
Its innovative, open design offers a true alternative to today’s sprawling racks and overheated server rooms. So toss out your cables. You have nothing to lose but complexity.
Realize innovation
Your business needs continually change. IBM understands that there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. To meet your broad and diverse needs, you want your IT infrastructure to be flexible and modular, and you need a solution that best works for your business. BladeCenter offers a comprehensive portfolio of chassis, blade servers, switches and fabrics—all managed from a common infrastructure.
Like IBM System x™ servers, BladeCenter servers are built on IBM X-Architecture® technology for enterprise-class reliability. X-Architecture is the IBM blueprint for bringing innovation to x86 systems—innovation that helps set you apart from the competition. The result is open, industry-standard servers on which you feel confident running your business-critical workloads. So you can innovate for your business advantage.
Manage complexity, growth and risk
You want a flexible business foundation that is both open and innovative. BladeCenter delivers. Choose from many offerings defined by Blade.org and created by other members of the most extensive organization for blade solutions.
Match your data center needs with the appropriate interconnect, selecting from multiple I/O fabrics. IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric is an integrated server I/O portfolio that provides a comprehensive set of interconnects and smart management tools. Its new pass-through capability not only improves and simplifies SAN interoperability and scalability, but it also helps you reduce cabling and its subsequent costs. Plus, it is supported by multiple vendors, so you can match the solution to your standards.
The new IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager makes it even easier to deploy your blades with preconfigured connections and a simple graphic user interface. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager automates blade deployment by intelligently managing the interaction between the blades and the storage and data networks. You define the connections just once, and BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager takes care of them after that—so you can be ready in minutes, not days. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager also helps reduce costly downtime with integrated failover capability.
And of course, there’s no need to redo your network standards. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager works across the BladeCenter family of chassis and switches. Its simple graphic user interface checks network conflicts— helping you save even more time. Configure once. That’s it.
BladeCenter is also designed with extensive redundancy to help reduce failures. Unlike some competitive products, BladeCenter servers provide dual I/O and dual power connections to the chassis for enterprise-class reliability to keep your business up and running.
Go green and save
You want to control your power and cooling environment and help minimize environmental impacts. BladeCenter offers energy-efficient designs and powerful IBM Cool Blue™ tools to help monitor, control and allocate power consumption. IBM Power Configuration lets you select systems and IT infrastructure that fit your business goals before you commit to buying the first server. IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86 and IBM PowerExecutive™ help optimize energy efficiency so you can be more responsive to energy needs and costs.
Introducing IBM BladeCenter S
With choices like the new IBM BladeCenter S that can be deployed in minutes and uses standard office power, you can be assured of finding the right solution for your diverse business needs. Built specifically for office and distributed-enterprise environments, BladeCenter S is an integrated business-in-a-box foundation with configurable shared storage that grows with your business.
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