IBM unveils System X for energy efficient operations
By Our Corporate Bureau | 26 Jun 2006
Mumbai: IBM has announced the launch of a new IBM BladeCentre blade and System x servers and workstations geared to help reduce power and cooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earlier technology. The new systems enable up to 90 per cent better application performance, and up to 163 per cent better performance per watt. The systems are designed and optimised to support more advanced computing with future quad core CPU models.*"IBM continues to provide customers with the latest advancements in systems design and performance efficiency," said Viswanath Ramaswamy, country manager, IBM System x. "The new IBM systems introduced today offer the latest in energy efficient performance and dual-core technology."
The new IBM BladeCentre HS21 is a high-density modular blade server designed to support the entire family of BladeCenter chassis.
The System x servers and workstations introduced today are based on the next generation of IBM's Xtended Design Architecture, providing high performance, availability, manageability and flexibility advances on top of industry standard components, and include:
- System x3650 - Stable business critical application server for workload consolidation
- System x3550 - Application density for power managed data centre performance
- System x3500 - Stable business critical application server for remote office management
- System x3400 - Affordable performance for growing businesses
- Z Pro Z30 - Scalable advanced graphics computing
IBM PowerExecutive, the first solution on the market that provides customers with the intelligence needed to effectively manage power consumption in the data centre, is also available across the line of blades and servers introduced today, free of charge and available by download for customers.
IBM expects the systems introduced today to be available in August 2006. Additional x86 systems for a variety of business computing needs will be introduced as part of the IBM System x portfolio and IBM Express portfolio in the coming months.
*Based on benchmark test results obtained running a Web server workload. Measurements were conducted by IBM using the x3650 and a previous-generation server. Actual results obtained in a customer environment will depend on the application workload for that environment.
