BladeCenter blade servers

       Intel and AMD processor-based blade servers
POWER processor-based blade servers
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IBM BladeCenter® blade servers support a wide selection of processor technologies and operating systems to allow clients to run all of their diverse workloads inside a single architecture. Reduce complexity, improve systems management, and increase energy efficiency while driving down total cost of ownership.
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Product	Business use	Processor (Max)	Memory (Min/Max)	Internal storage (Max)
IBM BladeCenter HX5 ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	Scalable high performance blade server ideal for compute and memory intensive workloads such as databases, enterprise applications and virtualization	2- and 4-socket, four-core, six-core or eight-core Intel® Xeon®	Up to 128GB per 2-socket HX5; scalable up to 320GB using MAX5 expansion blade	Up to 100 GB per 2-socket HX5 using solid-state drives; scalable to 200 GB per 4-socket HX5 (with 50 GB SSDs)
IBM BladeCenter HS22V ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	High-density, high-performance blade server with expanded memory ideal for optimizing performance for virtualization and memory-intensive applications	2-socket, six-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon®	Up to 144GB	Up to 100GB with 2 x 1.8″ Solid State Drives
IBM BladeCenter HS22 ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	Versatile, easy-to-use blade optimized for performance, power and cooling – ideal for most enterprise applications including virtualization, hosted client and SAP	2-socket, six-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon®	Up to 192 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory	Up to 1.0TB with 2 hot-swap SAS, SATA or solid-state drives
IBM BladeCenter HS12 ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	Cost-efficient uniprocessor blade ideal for general business applications such as file and print, collaboration and Web serving	1-socket single, dual or quad-coreIntel® Xeon®	Up to 24GB	Up to 293.6GB 1with hot-swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA HDDs or up to 32GB with hot swap or non-hot swap solid-state drives
IBM BladeCenter LS42 ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	Unique upgradeable SMP blade ideal for high performance computing, virtualization, consolidation and database applications	2- and 4-socket, six-core or quad-core AMD Opteron™	Up to 128GB	Up to 100GB using solid-state drives or up to 600GB internally with 2 SAS HDDs
IBM BladeCenter LS22 ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	High Performance Computing blade ideal for memory-intensive applications including research, modeling and simulation	2-socket, six-core or quad-core AMD Opteron™	Up to 64GB	Up to 100GB using solid-state drives or up to 600GB internally with 2 SAS HDDs
IBM BladeCenter PS700 Express ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure, the BladeCenter® PS700 helps in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple-to-manage, highly efficient way	Four 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7™ cores with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	8GB/64GB	0GB/1.2TB
IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	The PS701 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM™ for advanced virtualization, the PS701 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads	Eight 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	16GB/128GB	0GB/600GB
IBM BladeCenter PS702 Express ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	The PS702 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM for advanced virtualization, the PS702 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads	Sixteen 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	32GB/256GB	0GB/1.2TB
IBM BladeCenter JS23 Express ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure®, the BladeCenter JS23 helps in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple-to–manage, highly efficient way	Four 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	4GB/64GB	One 73,146 or 300GB 2.5″ Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering
IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	The JS43 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. With built-in support for IBM PowerVM™ for advanced virtualization, the JS43 is the deal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads	Eight 64-bit 4.20GHz POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	8GB/128GB	One or two 73, 146 or 300GB 2.5″ Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or 69GB Solid State Disk; No disk drive required on base offering
IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	Feature-rich blade ideal for workload consolidation with built-in PowerVMTM virtualization and broad based commercial AIX®, IBM i or Linux® for Power™ applications	2-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator	Up to 32GB	Up to 146GB with 1 SAS HDD
IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	Durable blade ideal for small database and application serving and for replacing traditional AIX®, IBM i or Linux® rack-mount and tower servers	1-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator	Up to 64GB	Up to 292GB with 2 SAS HDDs
IBM BladeCenter QS22 ·         More details ·         Browse & Buy	High Performance computing blade ideal for accelerating key algorithms such as 3D rendering, compression and encryption with double precision floating point computing power	2-socket multi-core PowerXCell™ 8i	Up to 32GB	Optional 8GB modular flash drive