IBM BladeCenter and System x solutions for games and interactive entertainment

Exceeding standards and expectations
These highly reliable and scalable systems are designed for simple initial implementation and expansion as your business needs change—enabling games and interactive entertainment companies to develop and deliver innovative products that maximize viewers’ experiences.

• Fuel your developers’ creativity with scalable products and solutions you can trust to more easily and securely manage the complex world of IT
• Improve customer relationships and shorten content creation cycle times with affordable and flexible systems and storage offerings
• Enable a reliable collaborative infrastructure that supports rapid development of new capabilities and features to meet customer demands
• Virtually eliminate the time you spend troubleshooting among different technology vendors and focus on your creativity. IBM can coordinate and support all of the elements of an integrated solution

Set youself apart from the competition with innovative technologies
The IBM technology platform for games and interactive entertainment is a unifying architecture which employs open systems and modular components to simplify complex implementations.  Read the customer success stories

Find out more about the broad range of IBM technologies that can enable games and interactive entertainment companies to develop and deliver innovative products

System x enterprise servers
IBM System x enterprise servers are built with X-Architecture® innovation and feature X3 and eX4 technologies, including a unique chipset and other advanced capabilities that give you higher throughput, exceptional reliability and the ideal platform for today’s business-critical applications—like database processing, customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning—and highly consolidated, virtual server environments.

System x modular servers
IBM delivers next-generation technology today that the competition can't match. Some server vendors view uni- and two-socket servers as commodities, using off-the-shelf components to produce cookie-cutter servers with no added value. Instead, IBM X-Architecture system design begins with standard parts and adds innovation to create something more practical: outstanding dual- and quad-core performance, high availability, scalability, power efficiency and proactive manageability
Learn more about System x rack-mount servers
Learn more about System x tower servers

IBM BladeCenter
By integrating servers, storage and networking, IBM BladeCenter can help you sweep complexity aside. BladeCenter systems contain the necessities to run an application— processors, memory, I/O and storage. The chassis contains shared redundant power, shared hot-swap cooling, DVD, integrated Ethernet, storage, switching and consolidated management.

• Five choices of chassis offerings for data centers, stores or remote sites and non-traditional environments allow you to tailor a solution to meet your needs
• A choice of blade servers including those with Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron, IBM POWER™ and Cell Broadband Engine™ processors allow you to run diverse workloads within one architecture
• An integrated server I/O portfolio provides a comprehensive set of interconnects and smart management tools to help you run your business
• Match the computing power to your solution requirements and diverse computing workloads. 

IBM System Cluster 1350
IThe IBM System Cluster 1350 aggregates an industry-leading cluster choice with energy-efficient System x and BladeCenter servers, storage and networking. Factory integration can help speed up deployment time to run scientific, technical and commercial computing workloads with high-performance, highly scalable Linux® or Windows® clusters. All components of the Cluster 1350 portfolio are assembled in IBM factories, cluster-tested in IBM labs and shipped intact and ready for installation at your site, to help enable ultimate reliability.

IBM System Storage
The IBM System Storage™ family of products offers a broad portfolio of scalable, open and innovative storage technology, including disk and tape storage systems, storage networking solutions, and virtualization and storage management software.

Systems management
IBM offers among the best hardware management tools in the industry and can help save you time and money by increasing availability, tracking and deploying assets, optimizing performance and enabling remote maintenance so you can better manage your IT. 

Energy management
IBM Cool Blue™ technology can help you every step of the way. Whether you need to evaluate your existing facilities, plan an energy-efficient data center, seize control with power management software or see significant energy savings, Cool Blue technologies can help your data center operate in a safe and more efficient environment. 

• System x iDataPlex —Put the heat on your competition
• System x and BladeCenter customer success stories
• Codemasters breaks into the burgeoning MMOG market by leveraging scalable IBM BladeCenter servers
• Online Game Services, Inc.: Enterprise-level infrastructure hosting for game companies with IBM BladeCenter
• ARTE: Creating art with a fully tapeless production system
• Threshold gives a new face to digital animation with an innovative, realtime process

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