IBM System x and BladeCenter can help you change – with special offers and discounts available now

The latest scientific evidence provided in the assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes clear the time for action is now.

Recently, IT discussions of cost savings have evolved to concerns over energy efficiency. Faced with the issue of an energy efficient data centre, public sector organisations are looking for ways to optimise their computing environments to do more with less, improve service delivery for citizens and save our planet. IBM believes these efforts can be complimentary.

IBM offers a range of technologies and services to help develop energy efficient and environmentally responsible data centres. It is a key priority for us as we continue to invest heavily in helping our clients, "go green". Our innovative technologies such as Virtualisation on System x, IBM BladeCenter and 'Cool Blue' offerings, can help reduce the burdens of power, cooling and space that a modern data centre faces.

A virtualised environment can help you save money, improve productivity and simplify system resource allocation, IBM System x servers and BladeCenter systems built on IBM X-Architecture technology deliver adaptive performance, simple modularity, efficient power and cooling and proactive management capabilities – making them ideal platforms for virtualisation.

Highlights:

• Help increase server and storage utilisation
• Enable a highly available and resilient infrastructure
• Help reduce costs and complexity
• Increase flexibility and reliability

Designed from the ground up to help dramatically improve power utilisation and reduce energy costs without sacrificing performance. IBM BladeCenter offers less power per processor enabling you to pack more processors into the same power and cooling envelope as well as better utilise your floor space to "right size" your data-centre design. Simply put, IBM BladeCenter runs cooler to deliver greater reliability and uses up to 19 percent less energy than other, competitive blades, based on the IBM BladeCenter HS21 Intel Xeon processor-based blade¹ (US).

¹ For further details visit ibm.com/systems/x/advantages/energy/bladecenter.html (US)

Powerful IBM Cool Blue tools help monitor, control and allocate power consumption. For example: IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager (US) enables customers to monitor actual power draw and thermal loading information to allow better utilisation of available energy resources, by:

• Allocating less power and cooling infrastructure to IBM servers
• Lowering power usage on select IBM servers
• Planning for the future by viewing trends of power usage over time
• Determining power usage for all components of a rack

And currently we have some great offers on BladeCenter and also some special discounts for Public Sector organisations – speak to your local IBM reseller for more details or contact us on 02392 561 868.

Managing Server Energy white paper
See IBM's solutions to specific challenges, including unpredictable energy costs, the need to tightly manage data centre budgets while increasing throughput, and constraints on capital spending for infrastructure upgrades.