IBM System x and BladeCenter Industry solutions

IBM System x and BladeCenter solutions that deliver value

IBM offers a broad range of System x®, BladeCenter® and iDataPlex™ offerings that can help you tailor your IT infrastructure to respond to the conditions in your industry with robust, cost-effective systems that are easy to install, use and manage. When combined with IBM Business Partner, IBM System Storage™ or IBM middleware offerings, these solutions offer an unbeatable combination of performance, value and energy efficiency designed to help you lower operating costs and improve your service and competitiveness.

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With IBM's broad range of System x, BladeCenter and iDataPlex offerings, you can choose the right solution for your business and IT objectives.

IBM BladeCenter® uses up to 50 percent less floor space¹ and up to 35 percent less energy than competitor rack servers without sacrificing performance²
The x3950 M2 with eX4 technology, and IBM DB2®, is the first x86-64 system to exceed 1 million tpmC in the industry standard TPC-C benchmark
IBM System x iDataPlex provides up to 40% power efficiency improvement³ while dramatically reducing cooling costs and minimizing/eliminating air conditioning expenses⁴
IBM Systems Director 6.1 can help you save 34% to 42% in administrative costs when compared with unmanaged environments⁵

Featured solutions

Automotive

HPC solutions for CAE
Drive design innovation and help reduce costs with pre-tested and configured IBM Business Partner offerings running on IBM System x and BladeCenter clusters.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

HPC solutions for Life Sciences
Help reduce both time-to-productivity and cost in drug discovery with Accelrys Discovery Studio offerings pre-tested and configured on IBM System x and BladeCenter clusters.

Cross-industry

Solutions for SAP environments
Learn how IBM System x and BladeCenter servers with SAP® applications can help solve on demand business problems in your enterprise and beyond.

Solutions for Oracle environments
Learn how IBM System x and BladeCenter servers support and exploit key features of Oracle® Database and Oracle ERP/CRM applications.

Media and Entertainment

Solutions for games and interactive entertainment
Enable game companies to develop and deliver innovative products that maximize viewers' experiences with affordable and reliable systems.

Retail

TotalStore Foundation from IBM
Manage cost and complexity with ideal platforms for the retail store IT architecture with IBM BladeCenter - the right choice for a distributed network of retail stores that needs an efficient and affordable blade solution for a flexible, consolidated and reliable business foundation.

Telecommunications

Next-generation network solutions and products
IBM provides products and solutions designed to reduce costs and simplify your IT infrastructure addressing the next generation network issues and challenges of the telecommunications industry.

Legal notes:
¹ BladeCenter E holds 14 servers in 7U of rack space. You can only get seven 1U rack servers in 7U of rack space.
² Based on IBM power engineering test data. Numbers are average worst case for P6 Burn exerciser program. Like Intel configurations tested in IBM lab. Blade power is average power of total chassis solution
³ The 40% power savings was calculated by comparing a 1U server with a 450W power supply and IBM System x iDataPlex with a 375W power supply configured with dual-core low-voltage processors, 8 GB memory (4x2 GB) and four 500 GB SATA hard disk drives.
⁴ In most cases with the IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger installed in the iDataPlex rack, outlet temperatures from the back of the iDataPlex rack are up to 10 degrees lower than inlet air (room) temperatures. This helps eliminate the need for air conditioning and facilitates cooling of the next row of iDataPlex racks using the iDataPlex flow-through layout.
⁵ Challenges of Operational Management for Enterprise Server Installations,” International Technology Group, © 2008

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