IBM BladeCenter S

Ideal for small business and branch offices, this chassis takes Blade Server technology out of the data center

Do you have an ethernet jack and a standard power outlet handy at your location? If so, you can have the BladeCenter S sitting on a desktop running up to 6 blade servers. Use the wizard-based installation interface in the management tool to get up and running, and integrate your standard business applications, such as antivirus/firewall, VoIP, email, collaboration, backup, recovery, file and print applications with a select-and-click configuration interface.

Reduce Power Consumption with the BladeCenter S

The BladeCenter S doesn't sacrifice flexibility in this chassis. It supports Windows, AIX and Linux applications and provides choice with Intel® or AMD Opteron™ processor-based blade servers. Reliability isn't sacrificed either, with reliability features such as Predictive Failure Analysis®, as well as redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and switch modules.

Integrate servers, storage, networking & I/O in a single chassis that can run on a single, standard 100V power outlet. Other features include:

• the ability to reduce cables by up to 80%
• chassis can be rack-optimized, 7U form factor
• 6 blade server bays
• up to 3.6TB SAS disk or 9TB SATA, or a mix of both
• hot-swappable, redundant switch modules support SAS, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI
• up to 4 x hot-swappable, redundant and load balancing power supplies
• high-availability midplane with fault-tolerant connections to all modular components for easy upgrades without disruption

Reducing Power Consumption Costs with the BladeCenter S

The BladeCenter S helps your IT infrastructure “ go green” by reducing power consumption, and therefore save money on energy costs. IBM’s unique Cool Blue™ technology enables you to save 25% - 36% in overall energy costs compared to comparable traditional rack & tower systems.

The IBM BladeCenter S also includes many other tools that help in planning, managing and controlling power & cooling costs, such as Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ which also helps protect components against failure to minimize downtime.

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