What's New
29th Jan 2010
PRODUCT REVIEW: The new generation of x86 servers
Announcing the new generation BladeCenter® HS22 blade server designed to help you reduce costs, improve service, and manage risk. Equipped with the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 series, the HS22 blade offers increased performance and extraordinary energy efficiency, so that you can consolidate workloads, improve resource utilisation and lower energy usage.
In addition, unparalleled reliability features and innovative management tools allow your critical applications - your business - to stay up and running longer. And with a broad portfolio of chassis, blades, I/O, storage and management components, BladeCenter is a platform designed to grow with you - and help you manage risk.
IBM BladeCenter HS22 server
The BladeCenter HS22 blade offers great performance balanced with flexible configuration options and simple management in an efficient server designed to run a broad range of workloads exceptionally well.
You can also mix and match the HS22 with other blades in existing BladeCenter E, H or S chassis for umatched investment protection, incredible flexibility and deployment choice. And with new innovations, such as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM), and IBM Systems Director 6.1, you can further simplify systems management and future-proof your infrastructure.
Compared to first generation Xeon-based servers, IBM BladeCenter HS22 blade servers can help improve the economics of your datacenter with:
• Up to 11X faster performance
• Up to 90% reduction in energy costs alone
• Up to 95% IT footprint reduction
• Up to 65% less in connectivity costs
• Up to 84% fewer cables
BladeCenter E Chassis
With data centers growing and becoming more complex, enterprise organisations need to combine physical density with energy efficiency and build productive, reliable, low-cost IT solutions.
The new IBM BladeCenter E Chassis delivers a powerful platform to meet these requirements, enabling you to reduce power consumption without compromising performance. The system is up to 19% or more efficient in power and cooling compared to competitive solutions.
With these power savings, your data centre can operate at full potential with lower energy costs. And BladeCenter E can grow with your business, supporting up to 168 processors (containing up to 672 cores) in a standard 42U rack - up to 31% more than blade competitors. This extraordinary density is designed to get the most out of your power and space-constrained data centre.
New generation networking solutions
IBM offers broad, fast and reliable networking and storage options that are both open and innovative, allowing you to lower costs and improve service while achieving the performance and efficiency your business demands.
