Products

IBM BladeCenter

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. With its industry-leading flexibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for your dynamic business.

IBM Virtual Fabric, an innovative fabric that can support multiple networking technologies at the same time, such as Ethernet or iSCSI, and operating at speeds from 100 MB to 10 GB. By using the virtual fabric solution, you can quadruple the number of virtual adapters by server, while at the same time reducing switch modules by up to 75 percent.

BladeCenter’s 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 one-size-fits-all solution. To meet your broad and diverse needs, you want your IT infrastructure to be flexible IBM Systems and Technology 3 and modular. BladeCenter offers a comprehensive portfolio of chassis, blade servers, switches and fabrics—all managed from a common infrastructure.

Highlights

• Realize innovation with a flexible, scalable architecture that lets you choose the right solution for your dynamic business
• Consolidate on IBM® BladeCenter® servers and virtualize applications to better utilize resources and amplify the already-significant advantages of BladeCenter efficiencies
• Maximize performance and minimize costs through improved efficiency; consolidate workloads and virtualize on an energy-efficient platform that supports the latest Intel and POWER7® processor technology
• Stay up and running with an intelligent system design that includes open connectivity and multiple layers of redundancy and reliability combined with advanced management tools
• Manage complexity and growth with easy deployment using BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager and IBM Systems Director
• Keep the network flexible by utilizing IBM Virtual Fabric, which can be multiple networking technologies as required