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IBM BladeCenter Lies, Continued

It seems like we keep coming back to this topic.  IBM updated their "Dare To Compare" web page .  They are misrepresenting facts about our blade server product line.

 IBM Says:

Sun offers the Sun Blade 6000, Sun Blade 8000 and Netra CT900. With Sun, 2-socket and 4-socket blade servers cannot run in the same chassis. Like HP, Sun lacks compatibility and fails to understand that being able to move blades and switches between chassis can help reduce your IT cost and complexity.

This is incorrect.  Customers can place Sun Blade X6450 (4-socket) and X6250 (2-socket) server modules in the same chassis.

IBM Says:

Sun offers Sun SPARC, Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron. Sun boasts 10 servers in a 10U 6000-series chassis. This is far from dense. IBM BladeCenter H offers 40% better density with 14 servers in 9U and IBM BladeCenter E is twice as dense with 14 servers in 7U when you leverage a 42U rack.

IBM is wrong again.  IBM's density gets cut in half if you add an expansion blade for the HS21.  In order to match Sun's CPU, Memory and storage density, IBM customers sacrifice a lot.  

IBM Says:

Currently Sun does not support solid state drives.

IBM has not been paying attention to our recent SSD announcements.  Our blades will support SSDs, very soon.  Just ask your Sun rep.

There is much more on the IBM page.  If you want some clarification, please leave me a note on this blog.

Posted at 03:13PM Aug 08, 2008 by Amit Raman in Personal  |  Comments[2]