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Grid computing solutions from IBM are designed to help you optimize computing and data resources, by pooling them for large capacity workloads, sharing them across networks to enable collaboration. With IBM System x™ servers and BladeCenter® systems, grid solutions can help you reduce IT investments and improve return on investment (ROI) while maintaining a flexible and resilient infrastructure for your demanding applications.


Highlights

Accelerate business results and time to market
Quick and efficient implementation
Manage growth without driving up costs
Modular, scalable design limits up front investment

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IBM Information Server Blade
IBM Information Server Blade
Improve the quality of your business critical data with the capability of lowering the total cost of ownership with the IBM Information Server Blade, a completely integrated offering featuring BladeCenter blades running Linux and the IBM Information Server data integration software platform.
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IBM Grid and Grow™ Express
IBM Grid and Grow™ Express
Accelerate business application processing and enable the foundation to expand to larger, more robust grid implementations with an easy to deploy integrated solution.
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IBM® Grid and Grow™ for Actuarial Analysis
IBM® Grid and Grow™ for Actuarial Analysis
Increase flexibility and improve resource utilization with an open, scalable architecture for actuaries who use industry leading applications for life, pension and annuity analysis.
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Optimized Analytic Infrastructure
Optimized Analytic Infrastructure
Enable a scalable financial analytics environment with a high-performance computing infrastructure based on IBM BladeCenter and System x servers.
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Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)
Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)
Address increasing medical archive storage demands and rising costs for mid to large healthcare organizations and hospital networks with an open-source System x platform for a flexible and scalable virtualized storage solution.
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