IBM BladeCentre S

The IBM BladeCenter S enables your IT strategy. It tightly integrates servers, SAN storage, networking, I/O and applications, allowing you to build a flexible IT infrastructure that is robust, integrated and virtualized using common building blocks. This modular technology integrates Intel® and AMD®, as well as IBM POWER™ processor-based blade servers, supporting many operating systems. Consolidating servers, switches and cables reduces complexity and helps lower costs and allows clients to manage everything in one solution..

Highlights

Integrates servers, storage, networking, I/O and applications into a single chassis
Uses standard office power plugs with 100–240V, so you do not need a datacenter to take command of your data
Flexible modular technology integrates Intel®, and AMD Opteron™ processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems
Comes with management tools that are open and easily integrated, allowing you to focus on your business, not your IT
Helps build greener IT infrastructures with powerful IBM Cool Blue™ technology, and a portfolio of products and tools to help customers plan, manage and control power and cooling.

Product Features

First BladeCenter chassis built specifically for the office and distributed enterprise environment
Open and easy management tools deliver advanced, proactive management, providing rich and broad systems management capabilities
Predictive Failure Analysis® helps save you time and money by helping decrease unplanned downtime
Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ helps maintain the health of your system by keeping internal components cool

Hardware summary

7U rack-optimized chassis
Up to six blade server bays
Up to 12 SAS (3.6 TB1) or 12 SATA (9 TB) or an intermix of the two disks
Hot-swap and redundant switch modules supporting SAS, Gigabit Ethernet, and Fibre Channel options
Up to four hot-swap and redundant load-balancing power supply modules
High-availability midplane helps enable increased uptime and investment protection for future technologies

Download Datasheet - IBM BladeCentre S Datasheet (pdf)

HP ProLiant DL380 G6

The HP ProLiant DL380 G6 continues to deliver on its history of engineering excellence. Increased flexibility, enterprise-class uptime, advanced management features, proven two-socket Intel® Xeon® performance, and 2U density make it well-suited for a variety of rack deployments and applications.

With the latest Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors (Quad-Core and Dual-Core), choice of DDR3 Registered or Unbuffered DIMMs, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and PCI Express Gen2 technology, the DL380 G6 provides a high-performance system ideal for demanding scale-out applications and virtualization projects.

Delivering embedded RAID capability and twice the memory, storage, and network adaptors of the previous generation, the DL380 G6 is equipped to support more virtual machines, users, and transactions than ever before.

What’s more, the next-generation processors come with feature enhancements that include Intel QuickPath, Integrated Memory Controller, Turbo Boost, and Intelligent Power Technologies—delivering higher performance, better power efficiency, and greater adaptability.

Key Benefits

Increased performance and durability for demanding scale-out applications
Smart, flexible systems ready for complex, dynamic environments
Energy Efficiency Leadership
Engineered for reliability and ease of ownership
Delivering best-run server infrastructure

Download Datasheet - HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Datasheet (pdf)