Why Choose IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud?

Edison Group describes the value and benefits of IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud
 

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Cure virtualization bottlenecks with BladeCenter HX5

IBM BladeCenter HX5 delivers memory technology
and I/O flexibility for breakthrough virtualization agility.
 

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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

  • The difference between networking and not working


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

Barbara Beltrame

x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist

Barbara is a competitive expert working with servers and cloud computing, part of an IBM worldwide team. She is a public speaker at IBM technical events and IBM Top Gun courses. In March 2011 she graduated with an MBA dissertation on the strategic implications of cloud computing for IBM x86 servers. She has been with IBM for 10 years.

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Cliff Kinard

Social Media Strategist & Sr. Marketing Manager

Cliff is one of the new "intrapreneurs" at IBM, Cliff was digital...when digital wasn't cool or profitable. Today, he is helping reinvent the IBM System x server team's social media and internet marketing approach to engaging customers in the x86, Intel® and AMD server hardware market.

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Cliff’s blog is an open discussion of ideas relating to IBM System x and BladeCenter® servers, with experts from multiple areas lending opinions on many topics: virtualization, VMware, networking, systems management, Linux®... just to name a few.

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