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The IBM eServer® BladeCenter is truly a remarkable move forward in inginuity, flexability and cooperation of technologies. Unlike other blade server offerings the IBM BladeCenter provides a unique mixture of high performace computing with built in redundant switching, management, and fibrechannel disk arrays. The benefits of the blade approach will be obvious to anyone tasked with running numerous servers.

Linux and the IBM BladeCenter are a perfect match. Whether your need is high performance computing power, high availability, or simply high density, Linux and the BladeCenter work as though they were designed with one another in mind.

The HS40 Blade Server allows for 4-way 3.2GHz Xeon processing and 16GB RAM in each blade. This combined processing power provides the equivalent of 89.6 GHz and 112GB RAM per BladeCenter. Blade servers are easily clustered to increase power in smaller footprints, are designed to take on self-managing functions essential to the grid and autonomic computing models -- especially key functions like workload management, dynamic provisioning and virtualization.

The BladeCenter with its redundant midplane, management modules, and layer 3 through 7 switching makes it perfect for failover clusters and lights out server farms alike.

IBM's BladeCenter is also great where high density equipment is a must. The innovative design reduces the amount of space required allowing you to concentrate as much computing power as possible in your data center. At the same time, the chassis simplifies installation and management of your systems.