In today’s world, it seems everyone is asking more from you --- your customers, business partners and even your competitors. More products and services. 24x7 availability. The ability to change focus or direction at a moment’s notice. In such an environment, you need to demand more from your IT systems.

IBM BladeCenter can help you answer the call, delivering an easy-to-use, integrated platform with a high degree of flexibility, scalability and manageability-- all helping you keep your focus where it should be--on your business.  

BladeCenter benefits include:

• Helps lower IT costs and TCO by providing complete functionality in one integrated, flexible system
• Supports Citrix Presentation Server and countless other applications on a wide range of operating systems, including Microsoft® Windows®, Novell NetWare, IBM AIX®, and Linux®
• Accommodates a multitude of different functions like high-performance research, databases, digital rendering or collaboration, all in the same BladeCenter
• 2-way and 4-way scalability, enabling you to scale your computing power up or out depending on your organization’s requirements
• Contains Switching, Ethernet and Fibre Channel technologies and flexible storage options, including internal drives or attachment to external storage such as a Storage Area Network or Network Attached Storage
• Allows you to harness control of the data center by simplifying solution management with powerful management tools

IBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform to consolidate your Citrix Presentation Server environment. Many customers have benefited by putting their Citrix Presentation Server farms on the IBM BladeCenter.  

• Fleury Michon, a consumer products company in France, uses Citrix thin-client software to serve applications to its users, and frequently needed to add new servers as the number of users and systems grew. Says Paul Chartier, Infrastructure Manager, “We wanted to free up space, reduce the physical complexity of the network, and create a more scalable environment for the future. The BladeCenter concept was very appealing.”
• St. Regis, one of the UK’s leading paper manufacturers, recently centralized its Citrix Presentation Server farm to a single site on IBM BladeCenter. “Reducing the sites and the number of physical machines has reduced the amount of time IT staff spend on routine administration, enabling them to focus on higher-value business issues.” says Robert Notley, IT Director at St Regis.

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