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- BladeCenter HS23 delivers up to 24X faster performance and reduces energy costs by 90% compared to 4 year old servers (US)
- You can realize up to a $4,000 USD cost advantage over the competition with a BladeCenter S solution.
- Registering your server can expedite technical help when you need it and help protect your business investment. (US)
Meet the experts
Barbara Beltrame
x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist
Kevin Murray
Worldwide x86 Server Marketing Manager
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The community speaks
"IBM BladeCenter provides the ideal infrastructure for running a large private cloud. If we find we are running out of total resources, we simply add another blade server – and we have headroom to grow by 36 percent from our current workload."
- Rob Arends, Head of ICT Program Office, ABN AMRO Lease
"The IBM BladeCenter solution, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, delivers the ideal combination of performance and scalability…We completed a comparison of SAP production throughput, and IBM BladeCenter surpassed our expectations."
- Lafaete Pereira, Chief Information Officer, Uberlândia Refrescos
"BladeCenter is a well-designed platform, and the concept of shared cooling and networking creates an efficient and compact solution."
- Waldemar Spitz, System Administrator at the Institute of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, the University of Bonn
"IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter give us fast and reliable servers that allow us to execute our strategies ahead of the competition."
- Sanjay Rawal, CEO, Open Futures
"With the IBM BladeCenter HS23, we’re looking at two to three times the performance we achieved with the prior-generation HS22."
- Chris Koopmans, chief operating officer, Bytemobile, Inc.
Barbara Beltrame
x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist
Barbara is a competitive expert working with servers and cloud computing, part of an IBM worldwide team. She is a public speaker at IBM technical events and IBM Top Gun courses. In March 2011 she graduated with an MBA dissertation on the strategic implications of cloud computing for IBM x86 servers. She has been with IBM for 10 years.
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Kevin Murray
Worldwide x86 Server Marketing Manager
Kevin is responsible for worldwide marketing programs for System x and BladeCenter. Kevin has a broad background in IT marketing and business line management, with over 15 years experience working with servers, networking, storage, and IT education.
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