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Super Bowl Bound Saints Mobilize With Virtualization And BladeCenter S

PostDateIcon January 28th, 2010 | PostAuthorIcon Author: Rich Brambley

Who Dat? Who Dat? Who Dat virtualizin’ on BladeCenter S ?

I posted last year about the NFL’s use of virtualization at the Super Bowl, and I wrote my beloved Atlanta Falcons in case they needed help when the NFL made it’s  decision to standardize on IBM Blades for all 32 teams. This year, Kevin Houston, a fellow Softchoice employee and author of the increasingly popular bladesmadesimple.com blog, has posted on how the ‘09 NFC Champion New Orleans Saints have capitalized on these very technologies during the season.

Houston writes:

“Other than the obvious threat of having to relocate or evacuate due to the weather, the Saints’ constant travel required them to search for a portable IT solution that would make it easier to quickly set up operations in another city.  The Saints were a long-time IBM customer, so they looked at the IBM BladeCenter S for this solution, and it worked great.  (I’m going to review the BladeCenter S below, so keep reading.)  The Saints consolidated 20 physical servers onto the BladeCenter S, virtualizing the environment with VMware.   Although the specific configuration of their blade environment is not disclosed, IBM reports that the Saints are using 1 terabyte of built-in storage, which enables the Saints to go on the road with the essential files (scouting reports, financial apps, player stats, etc) and tools the coaches and the staff need.  In fact, in the IBM Case Study video, the Assistant Director of IT for the New Orleans Saints, Jody Barbier, says, “The Blade Center S definitely can make the trip with us if we go to the Super Bowl.”  I guess we’ll see.  Be looking for the IBM Marketing engine to jump on this bandwagon in the next few days.”

Be sure to read Houston’s entire post for more about the many features of IBM BladeCenter S

Maybe the S model of IBM BladeCenter stood for “Saints” all along!?

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  • bladesmadesimple

    Thanks for the linkback, Rich. I actually came across a couple of your posts from last year when doing some of the research for my post. Appreciate your support!

  • http://vmetc.com rbrambley

    Kevin,

    Great job on BladesMadeSimple.com! Plus, I love it when virtualization, Blades, and the NFL get together!

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  • Dracolith

    That's kind of cool.

    For some reason I would expect an org like the NFL would want to leave servers at a home office and access them remotely though.. get two fast redundant network connections to whatever site they will operate in.. and: perfect application for cloud computing.

    Hauling around blade systems seems risky; considering one of the most common reasons for hardware failures is damage done to equipment while it is being transported.

    And mechanical hard disks in particular…

  • http://vmetc.com rbrambley

    Dracolith,

    Well, the NFL and it's teams haul around a lot of equipment everywhere
    already, so what is one more BladeCenter S on the truck(s)?! Disk
    damage via vibration is a big concern. They better have backup copies
    of their data, and I'm sure they remove the disks while in transit.

    Your point about remote access is a good one,
    But with all the photos and filming the coaches use and need how do
    you guarentee a fat pipe everywhere you go.

    Of course, Cisco is now in a lot of stadiums via a deal last year too,
    so everything from Teleprescense to wireless access is stadium wide at
    each location – or soon will be.

    Here's a thought though: for a competitive advantage on game day would
    a home team snoop a stadium network? Hack the visiting teams
    communications and systems?

    Interesting!

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