Blade is the fastest-growing server format on the market. The blade format delivers enormous savings in space, power and weight over traditional rack-mount servers. Not to mention great simplifications in server installation, deployment and management. And the cost-effective addition of redundant, hot-swap components enables substantial reliability gains. All in all, great news for your total cost of ownership (TCO).

•   The BladeSymphony 2000 is an enterprise-grade virtualization platform.

•   The BladeSymphony 320 is a densely packed compact blade server.

•   The BladeSymphony 1000 is the original enterprise-class blade server, supporting Intel Xeon and Itanium processors.

For more information about BladeSymphony please contact the Hitachi Europe Server Group.

Since high-availability is key to today's enterprise IT, Hitachi has worked hard to ensure that BladeSymphony is technology you can rely on.

Naturally, all active chassis components are redundantly configurable and hot-swappable for maximum uptime.

Furthermore, Hitachi's powerful system management software, ServerConductor, provides a failover mechanism for the servers themselves: Hitachi's N+M cold-standby.

With N+M cold-standby, "N" servers are active and running your applications, and "M" servers are on standby, powered-off and not consuming data centre resources.

If a failure occurs on a running blade, the ServerConductor software will detect the failure and automatically replace the failed blade with a standby blade running the same OS and the same applications, with minimal disruption, and no manual intervention.

In addition, of course, BladeSymphony benefits from Hitachi's forty-plus years of experience as an enterprise computing manufacturer, with its legendary quality-assurance and engineering expertise.

For more information about BladeSymphony's high availability features please contact us.

BladeSymphony’s optional management software suite provides centralized management and control of all server, network, and storage resources, including the ability to set-up and configure servers, monitor server resources, integrate with enterprise management software via SNMP, provide automatic failure notification, and manage server assets. So there are no hassles integrating diverse resources into your management system.

You can use BladeSymphony Management Suite to manage multiple BladeSymphony chassis from accross the range, so you can scale up without moving to a new management platform.

BladeSymphony Management Suite has built-in support for virtualization from a number of vendors, so you can easily manage all your assets, whether virtual or real.