An enterprise-class platform is the blade server, Hitachi Compute Blade X55S. It removes performance and throughput bottlenecks with a balanced system architecture. Flexible configurations are supported by the inbuilt logical partitioning capability in the Hitachi Compute Blade X55S. With minimum expense and maximum profit, it expands logical partitioning's advantages to additional parts of the enterprise data centre, such as important database servers and application servers. In particular, for consolidation at the application and data tiers, the Hitachi Compute Blade X55S combines the conventional advantages of blade technology with the top-notch functionality required by managers of today's mission-critical data centres and cloud applications. Because of its flexible I/O and LPAR virtualization, you can customise settings for your applications, allowing you to adapt to changing workload demands.