Your priorities are clear: contain costs, deal with a shortage of skilled people and meet the challenge of today’s on demand business. In short, manage the components of your IT organisation or communications network so they contribute to business success in today’s on demand world.

Take control of your infrastructure
Tackle your server management challenges with BladeCenter. Its design gathers computing resources into highdensity enclosures that support hotswappable, high-performance 2-way and 4-way Intel processor-based and 2-way PowerPC and AMD Opteron processor-based blade servers.

BladeCenter offers the high performance and manageability of IBM rack-optimised platforms. The result is an effectively managed infrastructure that helps maximise resource productivity and minimise IT and network administration costs. BladeCenter gives control back to the IT or network manager.

On demand ready
BladeCenter helps businesses be responsive to customers, focused on core competencies, variable to adapt to cost structures flexibly and resilient to face any challenge.

Models of the IBM BladeCenter HS20 support Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T), the JS20 blade and the LS20 blade provide a smooth transition to 64-bit applications without sacrificing the price/performance of the existing ecosystem.

IBM Director helps provide comprehensive systems management

Flexible modular technology integrates both Intel® processor-based, IBM PowerPC processor-based and AMD Opteron processor-based blade servers into the IBM BladeCenter architecture

BladeCenter T provides a platform for IP-based, nextgeneration networks.