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Highlights:
  • All in one-integrates servers, storage, networking and I/O into a single chassis
  • No special wiring needed-uses standard office power plugs with 100-240V
  • Flexible modular technology- integrates a family of IBM blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems and applications
  • Easy to deploy, use and manage-allows you to focus on your business, not your IT
  • Helps build greener IT infrastructures-IBM Cool Blue™ technology delivers a portfolio of tools that helps plan, manage and control power and cooling
Benefits:
  • Reduce the physical server sprawl associated with typical businesses
  • Minimize the IT staff needed to manage the applications essential to operating day-to-day business functions
  • Lower costs through the ability to add more servers, storage and networking simply on an as-needed basis
  • Save energy through reduced power consumption compared to rack servers
Large enterprises and small businesses alike depend on their IT systems to provide the high performance, availability, and resiliency customers and partners demand. Yet to stay competitive, organizations must find an economical way to simplify and efficiently manage evolving technology requirements. Small and midsized businesses in particular are pressured to do more with less space, fewer IT resources and tighter budgets.

For many organizations, IBM BladeCenter® is the answer.
Introducing IBM BladeCenter S, the industry's first blade chassis uniquely designed for small and midsized offices and distributed environments. Building-in simplicity and economy, BladeCenter S is designed to get big IT results from the smallest IT staffs.

Right size, right choice
Small enough to sit under your desk, the new BladeCenter S chassis makes it easy and cost-effective for small and midsized businesses to obtain IT results at levels traditionally reserved for large enterprises. With six blade servers, the chassis simply plugs into an average wall socket, helping eliminate the need to own and operate costly data centers. Within a single chassis, BladeCenter S supports virtually all of your applications-including those running on Microsoft® Windows®, IBM AIX® and Linux®-and integrates the hardware and software most used by mid-sized businesses:
  • Antivirus/firewall protection
  • Voice over IP
  • E-mail and collaboration applications
  • Backup and recovery
  • File and print applications
  • Easy tools to manage storage
Easy to deploy with the Office Enablement Kit
IBM knows that midsized businesses and enterprises with branch offices need solutions that are easy-to-deploy. The BladeCenter S Office Enablement Kit is the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S into your everyday office. With features that let you:
  • Reduce IT noise using a built-in acoustical module
  • Secure all your information using a front locking door
  • Allow growth with 4U of free rack space
  • Easiest way to move six servers using lockable wheels
  • Keep your IT healthy using an optional contaminants filter
For businesses operating branch offices-such as retailers or financial institutions-IT administrators at headquarters can easily pre-configure hundreds of systems to operate in the same manner, enabling branch managers to simply plug a system in and power it up.

Easy to manage
BladeCenter S is even easier to manage with easy-to-use tools that will get your solution up and running quickly, while helping you minimize the costs associated with managing your environment.

Installation
BladeCenter S takes the ease of setting up storage to a whole new level. Choose from several popular and predefined configurations and bypass the traditional step-by-step approach to setting up storage.

Administration
With simpler and more cost-effective administration, BladeCenter S may require fewer IT resources, helping enable skilled IT staff to be deployed to more strategic initiatives. In addition, tools such as IBM Predictive Failure Analysis®, light path diagnostics and multiple layers of redundancy can help keep systems available and operating at peak performance with little manual IT intervention.

Acquisition
As part of the IBM Express Advantage Portfolio, BladeCenter S is even easy to purchase. The entire IBM Express Portfolio™ is developed and priced with a midsized budget and usability needs in mind. In addition, low-rate finance options may be available from IBM Global Financing.

Less impact on budget, more savings
As energy costs continue to escalate, power and cooling budgets are tightening. BladeCenter S is designed to facilitate impressive compute power in an energy efficient package. In fact, it can be up to 50% more energy efficient than rack or tower servers. BladeCenter S is the best of both worlds, with the ability to help you reduce both your power and cooling costs.

BladeCenter S offers:
  • The ability to operate at standard 110V or 220V typical office power, eliminating the need for high-voltage power
  • Groundbreaking power and cooling technologies to help lower power consumption and increase efficiency
IBM BladeCenter S at a Glance
  • Form factor: Rack/7U incorporates blade server bays and hot-swap storage high-availability midplane
  • Blade bays: Up to six 2-processor, and up to three 4-processor
  • Disk bays: Up to two Disk Storage Modules that can incorporate six 3.5" SAS or SATA disks each
  • Standard media: CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo accessible from each blade server
  • Switch modules: 3 switch module bays
  • Power supply module: Up to 4 (hot-swap and redundant 950W/1450W with load-balancing, auto-sensing and failover capabilities)
  • Cooling modules: 4 hot-swap and redundant blowers standard
  • Systems management hardware: 1 management module standard
  • I/O ports: Keyboard, video, mouse, Ethernet, USB
  • Systems management software: Open and easy systems management and deployment tools
  • Predictive Failure Analysis: Hard disk drives, processors, blowers, memory
  • Light path diagnostics: Blade server, processor, memory, power supplies, blowers, switch module, management module, hard disk drives and expansion card
  • Limited warranty: 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty
  • Integrated storage: Support for hot-swap SAS or hot-swap SATA disks
  • External storage: Support for IBM System Storage™ solutions (including DS and NAS family of products) and many widely adopted non-IBM storage offerings
IBM BladeCenter S Chassis Integrates servers, storage, networking, and applications into a single chassis Uses standard office power plugs with 100 / 240 V, so you do not need a data center to take command of your data Offers flexible, modular technology that integrates Intel and AMD Opteron processor-based blade servers supporting a wide range of operating systems Management tools those are open and easily integrated, allowing you to focus on your business Helps build greener IT infrastructures with powerful IBM Cool Blue technology, and a portfolio of products and tools to help you plan, manage, and control power and cooling Includes Storage Configuration Manager V1.1, which enables the user to configure storage options in the BladeCenter S.
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