Highlights
- Consolidate on IBM BladeCenter Power Blades and virtualize
applications to better utilize resources and amplify the
already-significant advantages of BladeCenter efficiencies
- Simplifies your deployment with flexible configurations that
make it easy to implement the right system and the ability to run
AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems simultaneously
- Realize innovation with a flexible, scalable architecture that
lets you choose the right solution for your dynamic business and
delivers the utmost in investment protection, performance growth,
and time to value
- A secure, resilient infrastructure solution that helps drive
cost down, reduces risk, improves energy efficiency and enhances
flexibility
Built on the proven foundation of the IBM BladeCenter® family of
products—easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of
deployment flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability and
manageability—the IBM BladeCenter PS703 and PS704 Express are the
premier blades for 64-bit applications. Minimize complexity, improve
efficiency, automate processes, reduce energy consumption and scale
easily: these are the benchmarks that matter on a smarter planet. The
new POWER7® processor-based PS blades automatically optimize performance
and capacity at either a system or virtual machine level and benefits
from the new POWER7 processor, which contains innovative technologies
that help maximize performance and optimizes energy efficiency. They
represent one of the most flexible and cost-efficient solutions for
UNIX®, i and Linux deployments available in the market. Further enhanced
by its ability to be installed in the same chassis with other IBM BladeCenter
blade servers, the PS blades can deliver the rapid return on investment
that clients and businesses demand.
Delivering on the promise for a highly dynamic infrastructure, the
BladeCenter PS blades help in delivering superior business and IT
services with agility and speed—all in a simple to manage highly
efficient way. The PS703 and PS704 Express blades have been
preconfigured and tested by IBM and are based on proven technology.
Utilizing a 2.4 GHz 64-bit POWER7 processor and available in
sixteen-core or thirty two-core configuration, they are optimized to
achieve maximum performance for both the system and its virtual
machines. Couple that performance with PowerVM™ and you are now enabled
for massive workload consolidation to drive maximum system utilization,
predictable performance, and cost efficiency.
Power is effortlessly balancing workload performance
POWER7 Intelligent Threads technology enables workload optimization
by selecting the most suitable threading mode: Single Thread (per core)
or Simultaneous Multi Thread-2 or 4 modes. Consequently, Intelligent
Threads technology can provide improved application performance. In
addition, POWER7 processors can maximize cache access to cores,
improving performance, using Intelligent Cache technology.
Power is dynamic energy optimization
EnergyScale™ Technology offers Intelligent Energy management
features, which can dramatically and dynamically conserve power and
further improve energy efficiency. TheseIntelligent Energy features
enable the POWER7 processor to operate at a higher frequency if
environmental conditions permit, for increased performance and
performance per watt; or alternatively operate at a reduced frequency if
user settings permit, for significant energy savings.
Smart BladeCenter Solutions with Power Blades
If you are looking for the perfect alternative to replacing
traditional rack servers, then look no further. With a range of
available PS blade choices and BladeCenter chassis supported you have
the performance and scalability you need for demanding workloads of any
sort. When combined with the BladeCenter S chassis, the PS blades become
an ideal solution for deploying blades in an office and distributed
enterprise environment. Unlike a stand-alone server that needs multiple
power supplies and fans, individual systems management, numerous cables
and a lot of space, IBM BladeCenter is compact and easy to use. By
integrating servers, storage, networking and management, BladeCenter is
helping companies in every industry sweep complexity aside. The blades
contain all the necessities to run an application—processors, memory,
I/O and storage. The chassis contains shared redundant power, shared
hot-swap cooling, a media tray, integrated Ethernet, storage, switching
and consolidated powerful management.
Virtualizing on IBM BladeCenter allows you to create a highly
flexible infrastructure that can quickly and easily adapt to business
change. BladeCenter with Power blades is the only blade server solution
in the industry that allows you to consolidate and simplify your Linux,
UNIX and IBM i workloads on a single platform. When business
transformation is your goal, BladeCenter and virtualization is the
answer. Together, virtualization and BladeCenter with Power can help
reduce costs, increase business agility and boost IT resiliency.
Simplify. Cut costs. Boost productivity. Go green. They’re all
priorities for IT, and they’re all driving organizations to rethink
their server strategies and become more receptive to new ways to use IT.
Blades are the next-generation solution, promising improvements across
the board. So toss your cables and take the leap. Migrate to the blade
solution that uses less energy and gives more choices and control. You
have nothing to lose but complexity. IBM BladeCenter is the right
choice. Open. Easy. Green.