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BladeCenter blade servers


IBM BladeCenter® blade servers support a wide selection of processor technologies and operating systems to allow clients to run all of their diverse workloads inside a single architecture. Reduce complexity, improve systems management, and increase energy efficiency while driving down total cost of ownership.

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IBM BladeCenter HS22 

Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, power and cooling - ideal for most enterprise applications including virtualization, hosted client and SAP 2-socket quad-core Intel® Xeon® Up to 96GB Up to 600GB with 2 hot-swap SAS, SATA or solid-state drives

IBM BladeCenter HS12

Cost-efficient uniprocessor blade ideal for general business applications such as file and print, collaboration and Web serving. 1-socket single, dual or quad-core Intel® Xeon® Up to 24GB Up to 293.6GB 1 with hot-swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA HDDs or up to 32GB with hot swap or non-hot swap solid-state drives.

IBM BladeCenter LS42

Unique upgradeable SMP blade ideal for high performance computing, virtualization, consolidation and database applications 2-socket 30mm or 4-socket 60mm, quad-core AMD Opteron™ Up to 128GB Up to 62.8GB using solid-state drives or up to 293.6GB internally with 2 SAS HDDs; up to 734GB with Storage and I/O Expansion blade installed

IBM BladeCenter LS22

High Performance Computing blade ideal for memory-intensive applications including research, modeling and simulation 2-socket, quad-core AMD Opteron™ Up to 64GB Up to 62.8GB using solid-state drives or up to 293.6GB internally with 2 SAS HDDs; up to 734GB with Storage and I/O Expansion blade installed

IBM BladeCenter JS23 Express 

Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure®, the BladeCenter JS23 helps in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple-to–manage, highly efficient way. Four 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration 4GB/64GB One 73,146 or 300GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering.

IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express

The JS43 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. With built-in support for IBM PowerVM™ for advanced virtualization, the JS43 is the deal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads. Eight 64-bit 4.20GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration 8GB/128GB One or two 73, 146 or 300GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering

IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express

Durable blade ideal for small database and application serving and for replacing traditional AIX®, IBM i or Linux® rack-mount and tower servers. 1-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator Up to 64GB Up to 292GB with 2 SAS HDDs

IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express

Feature-rich blade ideal for workload consolidation with built-in PowerVMTM virtualization and broad based commercial AIX®, IBM i or Linux® for Power™ applications. 2-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator Up to 32GB Up to 146GB with 1 SAS HDD

IBM BladeCenter QS22 

High Performance computing blade ideal for accelerating key algorithms such as 3D rendering, compression and encryption with double precision floating point computing power. 2-socket multi-core PowerXCell™ 8i Up to 32GB Optional 8GB modular flash drive

IBM BladeCenter QS21

High Performance Computing blade ideal for tasks that require single-precision processing such as image processing, signal processing and graphics rendering. 2-socket multi-core Cell/B.E 2GB n/a

IBM BladeCenter PN41 

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) functional blade ideal for enhancing security and improving control of network traffic. Contains an Intel® IXP 2805 network processor for use in handling packets. Contains multiple types of memory such as TCAM, QDR and RDRAM.* Contains no disk or flash drives

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* Memory is dedicated to packet processing and is not expandable.

1 Maximum internal hard disk and memory capacities may require the replacement of any standard hard drives and/or memory and the population of all hard disk bays and memory slots with the largest currently supported drives available. When referring to variable speed CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs, actual playback speed will vary and is often less than the maximum possible.

2 When referring to storage capacity,GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible capacity is less. 2 When referring to storage capacity,GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible capacity is less

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