| IBM BladeCenter switches provide the small to mid | | | | advantages. |
| size business with a number of tactical advantages. | | | | Capacity Sharing |
| Companies can increase storage efficiency by | | | | Moving the network to an IBM BladeCenter allows IT |
| permitting a sharing of disc storage across multiple | | | | administrators to pool storage capacity and allocate it |
| servers over a shared private network or fabric | | | | to each server as needed, so you get maximum |
| provided by an IBM BladeCenter. This allows | | | | flexibility to meet the changing needs of your |
| companies the ability to share physical resources with | | | | technology. In contrast, direct attached storage only |
| a variety of logical workloads. In essence, companies | | | | provides storage capacity to the server to which it is |
| can focus their data to systems that are more easily | | | | attached, resulting in storage islands or pools of |
| stored and better managed through a central IBM | | | | storage capacity that's inaccessible to your other |
| BladeCenter switch. Let's consider some of the | | | | servers. |