Server consolidation

• 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 has the industry's best data collection, sizing, capacity planning and solution-development tools to help tailor custom solutions.
• IBM offers both scale-out and scale-up solutions with System x and IBM BladeCenter platforms.
• System x and BladeCenter platforms are designed for energy efficiency, virtualization, reliability and manageability.
• IBM Systems Director 6.1 integrates virtualization capabilities to simplify the management of physical and virtual resources.

IBM BladeCenter is an ideal way to replace numerous one or two-way rack servers in order to simplify your IT, increase density and decrease power requirements while lowering total costs. In fact, BladeCenter allows you to consolidate many workloads, including Linux®, Unix/AIX®, IBM i and Windows® into a single architecture––significantly reducing the requirements for space, chassis, switches, cables, racks, power supplies and PDUs. This helps you save on power and cooling costs, simplify and speed up deployment and management, and lower IT staff costs.

And with BladeCenter HS22 supporting the latest Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem), ultra-fast memory, hot-swap storage, high-speed I/O options, powerful management capabilities, and an optional embedded hypervisor for nearly instant virtualization, you can further benefit from reduced costs through increased performance, utilization and efficiency. The HS22 blade allows you to consolidate up to eleven earlier generation servers, process business critical applications up to 2X faster, and reduce energy costs by up to 90%*. In addition, existing BladeCenter customers benefit from unmatched investment protection as the HS22 is backwards compatible with the BladeCenter E, H, HT and S chassis for incredible flexibility and deployment choice.

Reduce administration costs and increase performance by consolidating multiple workloads onto high performance two socket servers in a 2U or 1U package. Built with a new thermal design, not only can these servers reduce power costs up to $100 per server per year¹, but typically just one of these new based servers can replace up to nine earlier generation servers while dramatically improving performance².

Offering unprecedented performance and reliability, these servers are optimized for up to eight-core processor performance. They are designed to offer rack-dense computing power, scalable memory, robust I/O and integrated RAID to satisfy high-speed processing and reliability requirements.

The 2U System x3650 M2 offers maximum storage and I/O flexibility with support for up to twelve (12) hot swap storage drives and four I/O slots. The 1U System x3550 M2 supports up to six hot swap storage drives and two I/O slots. Both servers can scale to 128GB DDR3 memory and support additional network ports on the planar for scalable network communications.

If your business needs to consolidate many servers with applications demanding maximum computing power from an x86-based system, IBM offers System x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 servers. Built on the power of eX4 technology, these affordable, 4-socket, 4U modular building blocks allow you to "pay as you grow" and expand to 96 cores. You can expand as your business needs expand without the penalty of costly up-front costs. And with high-speed interconnects and enhanced mission-critical availability features, these servers deliver an optimized solution for consolidated virtual-server environments, database processing and enterprise applications.

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