Over the last 10 years, management costs have grown seven times faster than IT spending1. IT sprawl, proliferating interfaces, complex tools and limited available IT skills are contributing to driving management costs up. You need a smart, integrated approach to enable your IT personnel to do more and keep the overall cost of technology under control. You want answers that are Open and Easy. You need to look at IBM BladeCenter® Open Fabric.
Open and innovative for a flexible business foundation
You need to interoperate seamlessly with your data and storage networks. IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric is an integrated server I/O portfolio that offers an open, high performance and comprehensive set of interconnects and smart management tools to help run your business. This broad, fast, and reliable network and storage I/O offers multiple benefits. IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric supports open standards and industry interoperability across 5 I/O fabrics, including Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, Ethernet, iSCSI and the forthcoming Serial attached SCSI (SAS). Adding to the current 16 switch portfolio, the new QLogic Pass-Thru Switch Module and Brocade Switch Module help reduce cost and complexity with SAN virtualisation with NPIV. And BladeCenter Open Fabric works across the BladeCenter family of chassis and blades. It provides interoperability with third-party offerings that are based on the open specification available to Blade.org members and other industry leaders. You benefit by harnessing the power of the industry to deliver innovation to help advance your business.
Easy to deploy, integrate and manage
Be ready in minutes, not days. With the forthcoming IBM Open Fabric Manager you get an integrated, automated way to help deploy your servers that is simple to use. The BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager automates blade deployment by intelligently managing the interaction between the blades and the storage and data networks. You define the connections once and it manages them after that. Plug a blade in and it automatically makes the proper SAN/LAN connections.
Stay up and running. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager also helps reduce costly downtime with integrated failover capability. LAN and SAN connections automatically adjust with its resource pooling and rapid blade failover.
And manage simply. There's no need to re-do your network standards; BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager works across the BladeCenter family of chassis and switches. And, its simple graphical user interface even checks for any network conflicts. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager also helps you save time. Configure Once. That's it.
In short. IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric helps get you up and running fast and helps keep you up.
1 Source: IDC Directions 2007, CIO Strategies to Build the Next Generation Data Center, Doc #DR2007_5VT, Feb 2007
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