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Chapter 2.
IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter
overview
IBM designed the IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter innovative modular technology, leadership
density, and availability to help solve a multitude of real-world issues.
For organizations seeking server consolidation, the IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter centralizes
servers for increased flexibility, ease of maintenance, reduced cost, and streamlined human
resources. Companies that need to deploy new e-commerce and e-business applications can
achieve speed while ensuring flexibility, scalability, and availability. For enterprise
requirements such as file-and-print and collaboration, the IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter is
designed to offer reliability, flexibility for growth, and cost effectiveness. In addition, clients
with compute-intensive applications that need highly available clustering can use the
IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter to help achieve high degrees of scalability and performance.
This chapter provides a high-level overview of the IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter product family.
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