All blades are not created equal
IBM BladeCenter® provides highly flexible and resilient blade server products that help reduce the cost of business operations. Choose the blade server you need for each workload – inside or outside the data center – and consolidate your servers into one easy to manage platform. Learn more
BladeCenter: What we offer
Meet the experts
Barbara Beltrame
x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist
Cliff Kinard
Social Media Strategist & Sr. Marketing Manager
Spotlights
Is your IT able to respond to constantly changing demands?
Virtual Fabric for IBM BladeCenter
Reduce cost and complexity while increasing performance with a broad choice of 10Gb and convergence offerings.
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The difference between networking and not working
Find out what kind of difference IBM BladeCenter can make on your bottom line.
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Did you know...
- You can realize up to a $4,000 USD cost advantage over the competition with a BladeCenter S solution.
- IBM BladeCenter HS22V delivers more virtual performance than Cisco's UCS B200 M2 blade. (13.4KB)
- Implementing IBM DB2 pureScale on IBM BladeCenter HS22 can help reduce the risk and cost of database growth.
The community speaks
"The BladeCenter solution is more robust than any other system we’ve used in the past. With it, we’ve gained the confidence of our customers, banks and industry regulators, as well as substantially increasing our profitability."
Miles Carroll, Chief Executive Officer, UPG
"The ability to leverage IBM’s experience in Cloud deployments and broad portfolio of hardware and software technologies has been vital to Capgemini’s success in creating our new Cloud service offering."
- Darren Wall, Director of IaaS solutions, Capgemini
"Even with all our file servers and databases running, we still have seven blades of spare capacity. Thanks to IBM and Celerity, we’ve gained the confidence to meet our IT challenges for the foreseeable future."
- Hunter Fairley, Project Services Manager, VWS Westgarth East Kilbride
"This implementation is an important step towards standardizing the IT systems within the entire group. An application-independent server infrastructure based on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter technology allows us to operate our business applications more efficiently."
- Dirk Kastner, Chief Information Officer, EDEKA Südwest
"The solution was implemented within a few days, so we could ensure business operations and improve technical efficiency. We succeeded in increasing query speeds and reporting, which improved by a significant tally of 30-40 percent."
- Sabine Nagel, Project Leader, NORD/LB
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