IBM BladeCentre

Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today’s on demand business, contain costs, deal with IT skill shortages and take full advantage of increasing technological complexity. In short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure for business success in today’s demanding world. You need to make the right choice for today and for tomorrow. With proven leadership, IBM BladeCenter is the right choice for your business.

Right. Your business changes. Onesize-fits-all solutions don’t work for you. To meet your broad and diverse needs, you want your IT infrastructure to be flexible and modular to choose the solutions you need. IBM BladeCenter offers a comprehensive portfolio of chassis, servers, switches and fabrics all managed from a common point.

You need enterprise-class reliability to keep your business up and running. IBM BladeCenter is designed with extensive redundancy to help reduce failures. IBM Predictive Failure Analysis® enables application uptime. Other features help enable you to make decisions based on accurate data for quick problem diagnosis.

Open. You want a flexible business foundation that is both open and innovative. IBM BladeCenter delivers. You can match your data center needs with the appropriate interconnect, selecting from multiple I/O fabrics. You can choose from a myriad of offerings defined by Blade.org and created by other members of the most extensive ecosystem for blade solutions.

Green. You want to control your power and cooling environment. You want to minimize environmental impacts. BladeCenter offers energy-efficient designs and powerful Cool Blue tools to help understand, monitor, control and allocate power consumption. IBM also offers IBM Data Center Energy Efficiency services. All this helps you be more environmentally responsible. For example, BladeCenter E delivers up to 31% greater density and up to 11–19% better energy efficiency than other blades.

Easy. You want deployment simplicity and performance without tradeoffs. The Advanced Management Module provides a single point of control so that all server and I/O activity can be managed remotely from a single console. And, BladeCenter Open Fabric offers broad, fast and reliable networking and storage I/O to work with your existing network and storage infrastructure.

BladeCenter is the right choice, tailored to fit your diverse needs. Open and innovative for a flexible business foundation. Green answers to prepare for your tomorrow. Easy to deploy, integrate and manage.

BladeCenter options

IBM offers a range of options to help create customized solutions to meet your specific business needs.

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HP C-Class

Choosing a BladeSystem over traditional server and storage alternatives is a choice to transform your infrastructure into something more simple and useful to your business.

The BladeSystem enclosure is the secret behind that transformation.

By consolidating everything from the start, BladeSystem enclosures tackle four big problems, before your infra - structure grows out of control.

Cost: high cost to buy, even higher costs to run and maintain
Time: low productivity, downtime and slow reaction to new opportunities
Change: inflexible and hard-wired with complex processes and multiple people needed to grow or adapt
Energy: inefficient, power-hungry systems that create rising electricity cost and stress the power and cooling capacity of your site

Today, HP offers two versatile enclosures to match the unique needs of large or small IT environments. Each one repackages the moving parts of your infrastructure — cables, power supplies and fans, networking, redundancy and more — to give greater convenience. This means a BladeSystem costs less to buy, plus it adds useful features that save you time, hassles and energy while making change easy.

Each BladeSystem enclosure is easy to upgrade and customize. Inside, you can mix and match almost any combination of ProLiant, Integrity and StorageWorks blades to run your choice of thousands of applications and connect to your same networks, but with 94 per - cent fewer cables.1 You can share and swap the same blades and network options between other BladeSystem enclosures and manage it all with the same tools.