IBM Unveils Information Server Blade to Help Enterprises Manage Information Overload

IBM Unveils Information Server Blade to Help Enterprises Manage Information Overload

LINUXWORLD CONFERENCE AND EXPO — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the industry’s first integrated, blade server-based data virtualization offering that allows companies to quickly gain more intelligence from massive volumes of complex information spread across businesses of all sizes.
The new IBM Information Server Blade is a completely integrated offering comprised of IBM blade hardware, the IBM Information Server data integration software platform, and implementation services including financing. It consolidates and moves massive amounts of data to increase business insight and manage growing information overload problems.

Designed for all types of challenging data integration projects including consolidations, mergers and acquisitions, business intelligence or data warehousing, IBM Information Server Blade leverages the dynamic nature of grid computing with the flexibility of blade computing and virtualization technologies to access and translate large quantities of information stored across an enterprise.

Unlike traditional approaches to large-scale data integration projects that typically consume significant system resources, require multiple software programs, and countless hours of processing time, the IBM Information Server Blade supports rapid data movement to deliver a consolidated, enterprise-wide view of information. Information can be delivered on demand to any person, application or business process. The new offering also furthers IBM’s global, cross-company Information on Demand initiative, which is enabling clients to gain a competitive business advantage through new and innovative uses of information.

IBM Information Server has long been implemented in grid deployments. These deployments have demonstrated significant performance improvements and cost savings. For example, a major corporation used a cluster of Information Server Blades at a cost around $300,000 running 24 Intel microprocessors to crunch through a massive data warehousing job in 45 minutes. Previously, when the job was run on a $3 million Sun server, the data integration job took them five and a half hours.

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