You want to innovate – to stay ahead of the competition. But if you’re like most organizations today, you’re spending too much of your IT budget just managing server sprawl. You need to get more work done despite smaller budgets, run more workloads without adding more servers, support more users and manage more equipment with a smaller IT staff – all while cutting operating and capital expenses. You need new ways to meet these extraordinary IT demands.
One way to address these challenges is to converge compute, storage, and networking resources so you can easily manage your IT as a single pool of highly utilized resources. But you need to do so in a way that won’t require rip and replacement of existing infrastructure. You need a solution that is not only internally integrated, but is also open, so you can converge your data center on your terms – not your IT vendor’s.
Converging your IT infrastructure with an IBM BladeCenter® solution can help your business meet these challenges. BladeCenter is an ideal platform for server and network virtualization and consolidation. With a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy, BladeCenter technology greatly increases server density versus rack servers, simplifies cabling, lowers power and cooling costs, eases server expansion, and simplifies datacenter management with an open, efficient and resilient infrastructure you can count on now and into the future:
- A BladeCenter solution can be managed from single point for virtual and physical resources to help save administration cost.
- 2002-era blades to run in today’s chassis, and most of today’s blades able to run in 2002-era chassis1 — for the ultimate in investment protection.
- A BladeCenter solution can eliminate up to 92% of all networking cables required by 1U rack-optimized servers.2
- A BladeCenter solution can reduce your floor space demands by more than half.3
- IBM BladeCenter can use a shared power and cooling infrastructure in the chassis to support extraordinary energy efficiency
What's new
- BladeCenter HX5 can be leveraged as part of zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX), a multi-platform solution that enables easy integration with an IBM zEnterprise System.
- New adapters for IBM BladeCenter extend IBM Virtual Fabric to a wider range of 10Gb networking switches. The adapters come integrated in select new models of the BladeCenter HX5, HS22V and HS22 blade servers for faster time to value.
- New BladeCenter GPU expansion options can help you address your parallel compute needs while maintaining the reliability, flexibility and cost advantages of your BladeCenter infrastructure.
BladeCenter servers
IBM offers a choice of blade servers offering a range of performance levels and features, so you can select exactly the right servers for the workloads you need to support, even mixing and matching them in a single chassis.
BladeCenter chassis
The flexible, open IBM BladeCenter ecosystem includes a choice of chassis to meet a variety of needs, including chassis for data centers, retail stores or remote sites and non-traditional environments. While each chassis supports a full range of servers, they offer different feature sets to address a range of business challenges.
BladeCenter networking, storage and systems management
IBM offers an extensive set of options to complete your BladeCenter solutions, including multiple Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, InfiniBand, iSCSI and SAS offerings from the biggest names in networking. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager helps you simply manage your sophisticated network, automating blade network provisioning and bandwidth allocation. Storage options include enterprise disk systems, Network Attached Storage and SAN systems. And the entire solution can be managed with IBM Systems Director.
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