Small businesses and branch offices dependent on standard tower servers for supporting key business applications can now get enterprise capabilities with three new offerings from IBM BladeCenter®. The BladeCenter HS12, HS12 Express and JS12 Express blade servers provide high reliability, energy efficiency and easy expansion and integration.

The new BladeCenter HS12 Express blade, combined with the IBM BladeCenter S, is the right choice for small businesses that need an easy blade solution for a flexible business foundation. Other HS12 models can help larger enterprises simplify server and application deployment - particularly for branch offices and remote locations with limited IT support.

• Starting at $999 — the first-ever reliable, single-socket server blade at this price point, the BladeCenter HS12 blades offer excellent performance for mainstream application workloads.
• Open and innovative — the HS12 blades 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 blades provide 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.