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All blades are not created equal.

IBM® BladeCenter® is a highly integrated system comprising of blade servers, storage, management and networking options that help reduce management complexity, increase performance and energy-efficiency while significantly reducing costs with a highly reliable and flexible design that deters the need for “rip and replace” as capacity needs change. Top 5 reasons to choose IBM BladeCenter:

1. The widest choice of compatible chassis, blade servers, storage and networking offerings
2. Rock-solid availability with multiple layers of redundancy
3. End-to-end reliability and a commitment to best practices
4. Excellent power efficiencies with pioneering cooling technologies
5. Superior I/O performance and switches based on open technology
 

Is your IT environment in need of better performance and efficiencies?

The IBM BladeCenter HS23 blade server can help improve the economics of your data center with up to:

• 24X faster performance than older servers¹
• 90% reduction in energy costs alone¹
• 97% IT footprint reduction¹
• 92% fewer networking cables²
• 86% fewer power cables²

• Evaluate your IT environment today and find out how much you can save with IBM

IBM BladeCenter: smarter systems for a smarter planet

Today’s data center environment is tougher than ever. You need to reduce IT cost and complexity. You need to manage space requirements, power consumption and heat output. And you need to do these things while increasing flexibility, utilization and manageability. So how do you manage the explosion of data and still reduce costs? IBM BladeCenter has the flexibility and reliability you need to manage the massive – and growing – amounts of data that your systems are creating without adding complexity. The innovative, open BladeCenter design offers a true alternative to today's sprawling racks and overheated server rooms. Migrate to the blade server solution that lets you do it all and reduce costs. You have nothing to lose but complexity.

Integrate:

• Servers, networking, storage, & systems management
• Virtually any networking standard from multiple vendors
• End-to-end management
• Linux®, UNIX®/IBM AIX®, IBM i and Windows®
• 1-, 2- and 4-socket x86 and IBM POWER® processor-based blade servers
• Multiple workloads on a platform designed for virtualization

Simplify:

• Management with a single point of control for the entire data center
• Deployment with automated provisioning tools
• Qualification with scalable, flexible building blocks
• Networking with Virtual Fabric and FCoE
• Complexity with an open platform that fits right into your data center

Reduce:

• Costs with fewer parts to buy and lower operating overhead
• Power consumption with a high-efficiency system
• Space with high-density blades
• Cables with integrated switching
• Risk with no single point of failure via multicomponent PFA and automatic recovery
• Waste with a stable, proven platform that has stood the test of time