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IBM BladeCenter H requires nearly 10% less power than the equivalently configured HP BladeSystem c7000. You really can go green and save with IBM BladeCenter® systems.

Designed from the ground up to help dramatically improve power utilization and reduce energy costs without sacrificing performance, IBM BladeCenter systems are the RIGHT choice for energy efficiency.

Edison Group, an independent technology analysis and consulting firm, compared the power consumption of IBM BladeCenter with a comparable BladeSystem blade server configuration from HP. Edison Group found that IBM BladeCenter H requires nearly 10% less power than the equivalently configured HP BladeSystem c7000. Extrapolated over 224 servers and with an energy cost of 9.4 cents per kilowatt-hour, this can save you up to $12,000 per year.

I was doing some reading up on IBM blades this evening and saw this on the IBM web site.

Check out this report, it’s talking about an independent report illustrating that the IBM BladeCenter H requires 10% less power than the HP BladeSystem c7000 equivalent. This is a topic that is regularly discussed and a topic of debate in terms of the configuration and the environmental/operating conditions.

If we stay away from the comparison aspect and focus on the topic of energy efficiency. It’s an interesting read, the report illustrates the benefits of blade servers as a platform, discusses the benefits of IBM blade servers, and shows as well as the operating costs in terms of power and cooling.

What I think we should be discussing as end users/evangelists or even vendors is the following:

• The empowerment from the blade platform – commonality of the hardware, interchangeable infrastructure through the enclosure – easier management and rapid deployment.
• The energy efficiency of the blade platform – from the blades themselves (energy efficient power supplies), using integrated network switches and SAN boot for example can deploy a scalable energy efficient platform for business.
• Illustrating examples where blades might be ideal – virtualization/grid solutions as well as those remote small offices where I need a domain controller, print server and file server, where a blade enclosure might be more secure and easy to manage.
• Illustrate how consolidating from a range of rack servers to blade servers might reduce your support costs, fewer operating system builds, driver packs and firmware to manage, fewer components to be kept on site (reducing your hardware support cost). Fewer types of hardware, means less on site components needed.
• Working towards improving communication and best practices – this is how we did it, these are the things you need to think about. This is what you can get away with, these are the key issues and how we fixed them. To make the deployment process easier and more scripted? Could I not have a packaged version/auto scripted version of the driver pack for me to inject into my Windows image? Those little things that make all the difference – the enterprise customer might not be that interested but as we try to bring online the small/medium market – isn’t the value added, the ‘free stuff’ the difference between success and failure of your product to their business? Could we not have vendor neutral meet ups?
• Improving documentation and information about the products with a focus not so much in terms of the technical, (though this is important), to the business process/business empowerment – you want a blade solution because….. this is how you sell it…. this is what you need to think in terms of the change process, the build process….

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