Product Overview
BladeCenter
Your business is not generic. IBM understands that one size does not fit all. Our competition has yet to figure it out.
The BladeCenter® chassis forms your IT foundation and can be tailored to the different types of applications, environments and performance requirements you have in your business today. Unlike other vendors with limited chassis and options, BladeCenter has five chassis that help users of any size, type and performance level pick just the right fit. With BladeCenter, blades and switches can be seamlessly moved between chassis, giving you incredibly flexible, mix-and-match deployment choices.
HP
HP offers the BladeSystem c-Class, p-Class and its ATCA chassis, but delivers no compatibility between these chassis. No other major blade vendor matches HP's chassis complexity and incompatibility.
Dell
The PowerEdge. One chassis, no choice. How long can Dell survive with one chassis? And will their next chassis be compatible?
Sun
Sun offers the Sun Blade 6000, Sun Blade 8000 and Netra CT900. With Sun, 2-socket and 4-socket blade servers cannot run in the same chassis. Like HP, Sun lacks compatibility and fails to understand that being able to move blades and switches between chassis can help reduce your IT cost and complexity.
