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Built on the promise of the IBM BladeCenter® family of products—easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability and manageability—the BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 Express are the premier blades for 64-bit applications. They represent one of the most flexible and cost-efficient solutions for UNIX®, i and Linux deployments available in the market. Further enhanced by its ability to be installed in the same chassis with other IBM BladeCenter blade servers, the JS23 and JS43 can deliver the rapid return on investment that clients and businesses demand. Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure, the BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 help in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple to manage highly efficient way.

Highlights

Ideal for infrastructure consolidation, virtualization, and demanding applications that require scalable performance and high memory capacity
IBM POWER6™ processor technology and the ability to run AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems simultaneously
Elegantly simple scalability, allowing easy expansion and pay-as-you-grow flexibility for the utmost in investment protection and performance growth
A secure, resilient and dynamic infrastructure solution that helps drive cost down, reduces risk, improves energy efficiency and enhances flexibility

Simplify. Cut costs. Boost productivity. Go green. They’re all priorities for IT, and they’re all driving organizations to rethink their server strategies and become more receptive to new ways to use IT. Blades are the next-generation solution, promising improvements across the board. The IBM BladeCenter innovative, open design offers a true alternative to today’s sprawling racks and overheated server rooms. So toss your cables and take the leap. Migrate to the blade solution that uses less energy and gives more choices and control. You have nothing to lose but complexity. IBM BladeCenter is the right choice. Open. Easy. Green.

"The new IBM BladeCenter JS43 blade demonstrates IBM's commitment to providing customers an application and database server with unmatched scalability and performance,” said Angelo Pruscino, Oracle Senior Vice President of Product Development. “Oracle Database and Oracle RAC offers customers the industry's most comprehensive solution for a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk approaches to provide highly scalable and available database solutions for all your business applications and deploying on the new BladeCenter JS43 is an ideal choice for enterprise-class performance, security and availability."

Angelo Pruscino, Senior Vice President, Product Development
Oracle

IBM i Edition Express for BladeCenter S

i Edition Express for BladeCenter S offers an extremely attractive option for new and existing IBM System i™ customers to reduce IT costs and complexity by consolidating their IBM i and Windows® applications with an IBM BladeCenter solution.

Delivering POWER6 performance for AIX®, i, and Linux

The BladeCenter JS12 is a 2-core, 3.8 GHz POWER6 processor-based blade.
The BladeCenter JS22 is a 4-core, 4.0 GHz POWER6 processor-based blade.
The BladeCenter JS23 is a 4-core, 4.2 GHz POWER6 processor-based blade
The BladeCenter JS43 is a 8-core, 4.2 GHz POWER6 processor-based blade
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Supporting a variety of BladeCenter Chassis options

For AIX, i, and Linux environments:

The BladeCenter S chassis has six blade bays for POWER6 and x86 processor-based blade servers and room for up to 12 disk drives.
The BladeCenter H chassis has 14 blade bays for POWER6 and x86 blade servers.

For AIX and Linux environments:

IBM BladeCenter E chassis has 14 blade bays for POWER6 and x86 blade servers.
IBM BladeCenter HT chassis delivers ultimate durability supporting 12 POWER6 and x86 blade severs.
IBM BladeCenter T chassis delivers rich telecommunication features supporting up to eight POWER6 and x86 blade servers.