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Now IBM brings the power of BladeCenter to small and midsized businesses. Introducing IBM BladeCenter S, the industry’s first blade chassis uniquely designed for small and midsized offices and distributed environments. Building-in simplicity and economy, BladeCenter S is designed to get big IT results from the smallest IT staffs.
Right size, right choice
Small enough to sit under your desk, the new BladeCenter S chassis makes it easy and cost-effective for small and midsized businesses to obtain IT results at levels traditionally reserved for large enterprises. With six blade servers, the chassis simply plugs into an average wall socket, helping eliminate the need to own and operate costly data centers. Within a single chassis, BladeCenter S supports virtually all of your applications—including those running on Microsoft® Windows®, IBM AIX® and Linux®—and integrates the hardware and software most used by mid-sized businesses: ***
_ Antivirus/firewall protection
_ Voice over IP
_ E-mail and collaboration applications
_ Backup and recovery
_ File and print applications
_ Easy tools to manage storage
BladeCenter S is compatible with the BladeCenter family of products, helping provide investment protection and seamless growth. The new chassis shares many of the IBM BladeCenter blades and switches. Leveraging a single, compatible architecture can help you reduce costs and complexity, while helping deliver investment protection.
Easy to deploy with the Office Enablement Kit
IBM knows that midsized businesses and enterprises with branch offices need solutions that are easy-to-deploy. The BladeCenter S Office Enablement Kit is the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into your everyday office. With features that let you: _ Reduce IT noise using a built-in acoustical module _ Secure all your information using a front locking door _ Allow growth with 4U of free rack space _ Easiest way to move six servers using lockable wheels _ Keep your IT healthy using an optional contaminants filter For businesses operating branch offices—such as retailers or financial institutions—IT administrators at headquarters can easily pre-configure The Office Enablement Kit is the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S in your environment. Shown here with optional 1U monitor/keyboard tra hundreds of systems to operate in the same manner, enabling branch managers to simply plug a system in and power it up.
Easy to manage
BladeCenter S is even easier to manage with easy-to-use tools that will get your solution up and running quickly, while helping you minimize the costs associated with managing your environment.
Installation
BladeCenter S takes the ease of setting up storage to a whole new level. Choose from several popular and predefined configurations and bypass the traditional step-by-step approach to setting up storage.
Administration
With simpler and more cost-effective administration, BladeCenter S may require fewer IT resources, helping enable skilled IT staff to be deployed to more strategic initiatives. In addition, tools such as IBM Predictive Failure Analysis®, light path diagnostics and multiple layers of redundancy can help keep systems available and operating at peak performance with little manual IT intervention.
Acquisition
As part of the IBM Express Advantage Portfolio, BladeCenter S is even easy to purchase. The entire IBM Express Portfolio™ is developed and priced with a midsized budget and usability needs in mind. In addition, low-rate finance options may be available from IBM Global Financing.
Less impact on budget, more savings
As energy costs continue to escalate, power and cooling budgets are tightening. BladeCenter S is designed to facilitate impressive compute power in an energy efficient package. In fact, it can be up to 50% more energy efficient than rack or tower servers. BladeCenter S is the best of both worlds, with the ability to help you reduce both your power and cooling costs. BladeCenter S offers: _ The ability to operate at standard 110V or 220V typical office power, eliminating the need for high-voltage power. _ Groundbreaking power and cooling technologies to help lower power consumption and increase efficiency.
A foundation for success
IBM BladeCenter leads the market with the largest install base of blade servers. BladeCenter also has the premier ecosystem providing solutions to business, small and large. BladeCenter offerings are designed to grow with your business.
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