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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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