“As IBM continues to lead the blade server industry and offers BladeCenter systems for the telecommunications industry, we are seeing a demand from customers for an application-ready platform. With this solution from IBM and GoAhead, equipment providers can ensure carrier grade availability without the burden of integration.”

Jim Pertzborn,
Vice President
IBM Telecommunications Industry Servers

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High Availability for the IBM BladeCenter Family

GoAhead and IBM have teamed to offer an open standards-based high availability solution for the IBM BladeCenter family. By developing and validating integration between GoAhead’s leading high availability solutions and IBM BladeCenter, you can significantly accelerate your time to delivery while reducing project risk.

This integrated solution jointly developed by GoAhead and IBM includes validated capabilities such as platform management and comprehensive high availability and system management. Key features include resource discovery and system model instantiation, shelf manager integration, alarm management, hot swap management and integration with IBM systems management capabilities. This functionality is accomplished through the use of the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Hardware Platform Interface (HPI).

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