IBM - BladeCenter Promotion

More Performance. More Flexibility.
Plus get a BladeCenter for £1 when you buy any 2 Blades.**

Intel®-based IBM System x servers let you simplify your server environment and increase flexibility with virtualisation. Intel® architecture-based servers provide breakthrough performance and proven reliability for the foundation of your virtualised environment.

Reduce costs. Intel® technology-based virtualisation solutions enable you to consolidate more applications on fewer physical servers, help avoid costly data centre expansion by lowering management costs.

Build performance. With Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors, you get performance and headroom to improve the average virtualisation performance by as much as 2.5x over dual-core systems.¹ Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) reduces the need for compute-intensive software translations between the guest and host operating systems.²

IBM BladeCenter - beats the competition on every point

IBM BladeCenter integrates servers, storage and networking into a single enclosure, tying it together with powerful system management tools, to help you reduce complexity, simplify IT management and reduce costs, through a flexible and highly scalable design. Blade servers offer higher density and potentially lower total cost of ownership with no sacrifice in performance, and can deliver significant advantages over typical rack servers:

Space saving: BladeCenter can save up to 50% of the floor space of an equivalent rack solution, without sacrificing application performance.
Efficiency: BladeCenters can use as much as 34% less power than prior generations of rack servers, and they can also produce as much as 35% less heat per server, compared to 1U servers.
Cable reduction: With BladeCenter, you can have up to 82% fewer cables than with rack servers, which can mean dramatically lower costs and less complexity.

So, if you think a Blade infrastructure is right for you, make IBM BladeCenter the RIGHT choice: OPEN, EASY and GREEN.

RIGHT choice, tailored to fit your diverse needs
- Flexible and modular – 5 compatible chassis and 5 blade types supporting multiple I/O fabrics, all managed from a common point
- Robust and reliable – redundancy throughout and the information you need to keep your business up and running
OPEN and innovative for a flexible business foundation
- Comprehensive – broad, fast, and reliable networking and storage I/O with BladeCenter Open Fabric
- Collaborative – harness the power of the industry to deliver innovation that matters
EASY to deploy, integrate and manage
- Efficient, integrated management – minimise costs with the tools you need for effective management
- Deployment simplicity without tradeoffs – speed deployment of new hardware to minutes rather than days with BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
GREEN today for a better tomorrow
- Control – powerful tools that help you optimise your data center infrastructure so you can be more responsive.
- Environmentally friendly – servers and services that can help you to reduce your energy usage

IBM BladeCenter takes the best of IBM engineering and delivers it in an industry-standard platform. It combines technology innovation with industry standard hardware and software for rock-solid servers with the following:

Engineered for reliability:

Dual power connections
Thermal/cooling redundancy
Dual blade connections for all I/O
Dual switch modules
Dual paths through backplane
Dual Management Modules
Dual N+N power topologies
True N+N thermal solutions

Engineered for availability:

Automated failover capability via Management Module
Management Module monitors health of chassis components
Comprehensive Predictive Failure Analysis® proactively identifies many potential issues before they cause failures
First Failure Data Capture helps provide integrity of error reporting
Light Path Diagnostics for easy trouble shooting

To help you to realise the benefits of IBM BladeCenter for yourself, IBM are offering a great deal to help you move to IBM BladeCenter.

BladeCenter for £1

When you buy a minimum of 2 blade servers (minimum configuration applies), IBM will provide an IBM BladeCenter for £1. You can also receive some great discounts off the additional blade components.

And if that’s not enough... If you purchase 14 IBM Blade servers per chassis through this offering, you will receive 14 blade units for the price of 7. For further details on this offer please contact your local IBM reseller.

For eligible products and configurations click here
For more details on the IBM BladeCenter portfolio visit: IBM BladeCenter

Eligible Products and Configurations

Minimum configuration for the Blade servers in this offer is:
Any 2 non Express Blades (HS, LS, JS):

each with at least 2 processors (any type)
and, an extra 4GB RAM to the base unit (any type)
and, 1 disk (any type) or 1 adapter (any type)

Minimum BladeCenter configuration for this offer is:

Any non Express BladeCenter E, H or HT chassis
Plus any non Express internal BladeCenter Ethernet Switch Module (Cisco, Nortel or IBM)

If the configuration consists of 14 blades (non Express HS, LS, or JS), of 8gb or more each, the customer could also receive:

1 x IBM services day for £1 – to help with set up and installation

Terms and conditions
1.This offer is strictly limited and subject to availability via an IBM reseller between 1st January 2008 and 30th September 2008.
2.This promotion cannot be combined with other applicable IBM discounts on the eligible products.
3.The number of chassis' included in this promotion for any one customer, is at IBMs discretion
4.If multiple chassis are ordered, each will be subject to the guidelines above. So , for example, if Chassis 1 contains 14 blades, it will be eligible for 1 free services day. If chassis 2 contains 6 blades, it won’t be. Each chassis will need to comply with the guidelines in its own right to be eligible for the relevant offers.
5.This offer is only available for customers that have not purchased IBM blade before – it is not to be used to replace existing blade pricing agreements for existing customers.
6.IBM reserves the right to modify or withdraw this promotion at any time.

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