Small businesses and branch offices dependent on standard towers for supporting key business applications can now get enterprise capabilities with two new offerings from IBM BladeCenter® — the BladeCenter HS12 blade server and the BladeCenter JS12 Express blade server. Both provide high reliability, energy efficiency and easy expansion and integration. When coupled with the BladeCenter S chassis, you get the flexibility you need at an affordable price.
The new BladeCenter HS12, combined with the IBM BladeCenter S chassis, is the right choice for branch locations and independent establishments who need an easy blade solution for a flexible business foundation.
- Starting at $999 — the first-ever reliable, single-socket server blade at this price point, the BladeCenter HS12 offers excellent performance for mainstream application workloads.
- Open and innovative — the HS12 combined with the BladeCenter S chassis gives you broad interoperability with blades, switches and adapters, providing mix-and-match deployment choices, as well as lots of storage integrated into the chassis.
- Easy to deploy, integrate and manage — the HS12 provides IT managers and application users with consistent, simple usability and a wide range of core options.
More technology choices. The BladeCenter JS12 Express blade server combines affordability with the capability to run AIX®, IBM i operating system (formerly i5/OS®) or Linux® for Power™ applications—concurrently if desired. The JS12 Express blade increases the ways clients can put this power to work. Powered by the latest IBM processor technology, POWER6™, the JS12 Express blade provides leadership price/performance; superior reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics; high energy efficiency; and outstanding built-in PowerVM™ virtualization to help achieve increased system utilization.
This expanded BladeCenter product line continues to be built green today for a better tomorrow. With tools to allow you to monitor and control power consumption, more efficient components and a state-of-the-art mechanical design, you get affordable, energy-efficient, performance computing.
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