Why should I offer IBM’s BNT RackSwitch™ and BladeCenter® Solutions to my customers?
There are six great reasons to promote IBM’s BNT Network solutions to your customers:
Fast
- The edge of the network feeds dynamic applications that run businesses and touch users.
- IBM’s 10G switches offer lossless, low latency (4.6 times lower latency) performance to drive business responsiveness.
- IBM’s switches deliver up to 2.7 times better price performance.1
Proven
- IBM BNT’s singular focus is on data centre switching and is the second largest data-centre-switch vendor worldwide.2
- IBM’s industry leading 1/10/40 GbE blade and top-of-rack switches are found in:
1. The world’s largest stock exchange
2. The world’s largest Ethernet supercomputing cluster
3. The world’s largest data centres in finance, retail and other industries
4. IBM BNT’s industry proven OS has been in deployment for over 10 years.
Interoperable
- IBM is the open-standards alternative to single vendor solutions. No rip and replace required.
- IBM switches are certified for interoperability into Cisco’s and other vendor networks.
- Industry standard CLI simplifies configuration for those familiar with Cisco environments.
Converged
- Data centre networking used to mean Fibre Channel for server to storage, InfiniBand for server to server and Ethernet for server to client.
- Now, DCB/CEE/FCoE support on IBM RackSwitch enables lossless performance across client, server and storage networks, including iSCSI and NAS.
- BLADEHarmony ManagerTM simplifies device management across the network and integrates it into other vendors’ network management systems.
Virtual
- VMready™ configures the network parameters of virtual machines so they can migrate securely to different physical servers.
- Virtual machines can move to different physical servers without requiring complex network configurations or introducing security vulnerabilities.
- IBM’s Virtual Fabric (vNIC) can carve a 10G NIC into virtual pipes to the switch, reducing hardware costs while improving performance, availability and security in virtualized environments.
Green
- 10% of data centre energy is consumed by the networking equipment.3
- Deploying two 10G RackSwitches per rack across a five-rack data centre can save $3,500 on your energy bill over three years. This is equivalent to:
- 26.5 fewer metric tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere or
- 5 cars removed from the road for a year.4
1) http://www.tolly.com/DocDetail.aspx?DocNumber=210139
2) Gartner, Competitive Landscape: Data Center Ethernet Switches, Worldwide, 2010
3) EPA Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Efficiency, Public Law 109-431
4) EPA Greenhouse Gases Equivalencies Calculator, G8124 Watts at 50% power vs Cisco 5010
