IBM BladeCenter® blade servers support a wide selection of processor technologies and operating systems to allow clients to run all of their diverse workloads inside a single architecture. Reduce complexity, improve systems management, and increase energy efficiency while driving down total cost of ownership.
The ability to cut costs with highly energy efficient solutions and offer leadership virtualisation makes the IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express a desirable blade server for organisations of any size. Companies can go green and save while managing growth, complexity and risk, all while using technology that makes innovation in their business real and sets them apart from the competition. The JS22 Express offers exceptional price/performance in a virtualised environment; breadth of available applications; reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics; energy efficiency; and leadership virtualisation.
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Four 64-bit 4.0 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
4 GB/32 GB
0 GB/300 GB
Cost-efficient uniprocessor blade ideal for general business applications such as file and print, collaboration and Web serving.
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1-socket single, dual or quad-core Intel® Xeon®
Up to 24GB
Up to 293.6GB with hot-swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA HDDs or up to 32GB with hot swap or non-hot swap solid state drives.
Ideal Applications Include: Virtualisation, hosted client, general business and enterprise applications.
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Two Intel® Xeon® 5500 series processors
12 slots of very low profile (VLP) Double Data Rate (DDR)-3 memory Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs) with up to 96 GB of memory capacity
Two hot-swap 2.5" bays supporting both SAS HDDs and solid-state drives and up to 600 GB total internal storage
Scalable blade with exceptional performance and energy efficiency.
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Two- to four-socket with latest Six-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron
Up to 128 GB (up to 800 MHz)
Up to two Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or solid-state hard disk drives (HDDs) installed on each blade (support for up to three hot-swap SAS drives with optional storage and I/O (SIO) expansion blade)
High performance, low power compute blade for memory-intensive applications.
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Latest Six-Core AMD Opteron
Up to 64 GB double data rate (DDR) II very low profile (VLP) (up to 800 MHz)
Up to two Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or solid-state Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) installed on each blade (support for up to three hot-swap SAS drives with optional storage and I/O (SIO) expansion blade)
The ability to cut costs with highly energy efficient solutions and offer leadership virtualisation makes the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express a desirable blade server for organisations of any size. Companies can go green and save while managing growth, complexity and risk, all while using technology that makes innovation in their business real and sets them apart from the competition. The JS12 Express offers exceptional price/performance in a virtualised environment; breadth of available applications; reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics; energy efficiency; and leadership virtualisation.
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Two 64-bit IBM POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration 3.8 GHz
4 GB/64 GB
0 GB/600 GB
The ability to cut costs with highly energy efficient solutions and offer leadership virtualisation makes the IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express a desirable blade server for organisations of any size. Companies can go green and save while managing growth, complexity and risk, all while using technology that makes innovation in their business real and sets them apart from the competition. The JS22 Express offers exceptional price/performance in a virtualised environment; breadth of available applications; reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics; energy efficiency; and leadership virtualisation.
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Four 64-bit 4.0 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
2 or 4 GB/32 GB
0 GB/146 GB
Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure, the BladeCenter JS23 helps in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed – all in a simple-to–manage, highly efficient way.
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Four 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
4.2 GHz
4 GB/64 GB
0 GB/300 GB
The JS43 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. With built-in support for IBM PowerVM for advanced virtualisation, the JS43 is the deal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads.
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Eight 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
4.2 GHz
8 GB/128 GB
0 GB/600 GB
High Performance computing blade ideal for accelerating key algorithms such as 3D rendering, compression and encryption with double precision floating point computing power.
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2-socket multi-core PowerXCellTM 8i
Up to 32 GB
Optional 8GB modular flash drive
Driven by the need for telecommunications service providers and national governments to understand the content of their network traffic for revenue and security reasons, the IBM BladeCenter PN41 is a powerful solution to help increase revenue, lower costs and protect mission-critical networks.
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2-socket multi-core PowerXCellTM 8i
Up to 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps) sustained system throughput per blade; up to 280 Gbps per chassis and more than 1 TB per rack
Front panel: 1 x 10GbE (XFP); 1 x 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) (Small Form factor Pluggable (SFP)): Backplane: 4 x 10GbE: 4 x 1GbE
1 Using 8 GB DIMMS when available.
