IBM Unveils Information Server Blade to Help Enterprises Manage Information Overload

IBM Unveils Information Server Blade to Help Enterprises Manage Information Overload
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The system runs on Red Hat Linux and is built on IBM BladeCenter HS21 servers with Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors. Based on low-voltage industry standard processors, the energy-efficient system also uses less power and requires less cooling than larger systems.
To ease management and enhance grid and virtualization capabilities, the Information Server Blade uses the IBM Systems Director portfolio to provide users with a centralized dashboard to discover and manage all workloads and physical and virtual machines within the pooled environment. It also provides seamless, integrated grid management with Tivoli Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler so workloads can be easily managed across blades. Tivoli Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler provides high workload throughput and efficient utilization of resources within grid clusters. New blades can be simply snapped into a grid to add more processing power as needed, and Tivoli Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler can be used to coordinate workload dispatching across multiple grids.
"As customers seek to minimize datacenter complexity and power consumption without sacrificing capacity or performance, they are turning more and more to integrated blade server solutions built on Intel Xeon processors to balance these needs," said Elliot Garbus, general manager of developer relations for the Intel Software and Solutions Group. "Together, IBM and Intel have enabled a power-friendly, highly-scalable, turn-key solution to help customers more quickly and easily modernize their information management infrastructure."