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The Office Enablement Kit is the ideal way to deploy BladeCenter S in your environment. Shown here with
optional 1U monitor/keyboard tray.
Now IBM brings the power of
BladeCenter to small and
midsized businesses. Introducing
IBM BladeCenter S, the industry’s first
blade chassis uniquely designed for
small and midsized offices and distrib-
uted environments. Building-in simplicity
and economy, BladeCenter S is
designed to get big IT results from the
smallest IT staffs.
Right size, right choice
Small enough to sit under your desk,
the new BladeCenter S chassis makes
it easy and cost-effective for small and
midsized businesses to obtain IT results
at levels traditionally reserved for large
enterprises. With six blade servers, and
a fully integrated Storage Area Network
(SAN), the chassis simply plugs into an
average wall socket, helping eliminate
the need to own and operate costly
data centers.
Within a single chassis, BladeCenter S
supports virtually all of your
applications—including those running
on Microsoft® Windows®, IBM AIX®
and Linux®—and integrates the hard-
ware and software most used by mid-
sized businesses:
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Antivirus/firewall protection
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Voice over IP
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Virtualization
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E-mail and collaboration
applications
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Backup and recovery
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File and print applications
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Easy tools to manage storage
BladeCenter S is compatible with the
BladeCenter family of products, helping
provide investment protection and
seamless growth. The new chassis
shares many of the BladeCenter blades
and switches. Leveraging a single,
compatible architecture can help you
reduce costs and complexity, while
helping deliver investment protection.
Easy to deploy with Start Now Advisor
IBM knows that midsized businesses
and enterprises with branch offices
need solutions that are easy-to-deploy.
That’s why BladeCenter S ships with
the Start Now Advisor tool, a DVD that
walks you through the setup of compo-
nents of the chassis. Setting up IT has
never been simpler. In addition, the