IBM Unveils New System x and BladeCenter Systems Featuring Energy Efficient Performance28 June 2006
IBM introduced today a new IBM BladeCenter bladeand System x servers and workstations geared to help reduce power andcooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earliertechnology. The new systems enable up to 90% percent better applicationperformance, and up to 163% percent better performance per watt today. Thesystems are designed and optimized to support more advanced computing withfuture quad core CPU models. (1)
"IBM continues to provide customers with the latest advancements in systemsdesign and performance efficiency," said Alex Yost, director, IBM System x."The new IBM systems introduced today offer the latest in energy efficientperformance and dual-core technology."
The new IBM BladeCenter HS21 is a high-density modular blade serverdesigned to support the entire family of BladeCenter chassis. Theultra-slim and powerful blade design starts at US $2,159. It allows usersto double their performance using their current BladeCenter infrastructure.
The System x servers and workstations introduced today are based on thenext generation of IBM's Xtended Design Architecture, providing highperformance, availability, manageability and flexibility advances on top ofindustry standard components, and include:
-- System x3650 - Stable business critical application server for workload consolidation; starting at US $2,119.-- System x3550 - Application density for power managed datacenter performance; starting at US $1,869.-- System x3500 - Stable business critical application server for remote office management; starting at US $1,809.-- System x3400 - Affordable performance for growing businesses; starting at US $1,019.-- Z Pro Z30 - Scalable advanced graphics computing; starting at US $2,169. System x3650, using IBM Java 2 5.0 Runtime Environment, delivered aleadership 2-processor score of 114,941 business operations per second(bops) and 114,941 (bops/JVM) running the SPECjbb2005 benchmark, whichevaluates the performance of servers running typical Java businessapplications. These results are 14 percent higher than the previous numberone result.
IBM PowerExecutive, the first solution on the market that providescustomers with the intelligence needed to effectively manage powerconsumption in the datacenter, is also available across the line of bladesand servers introduced today, free of charge and available by download forcustomers.
IBM expects the systems introduced today to be available in August 2006.Additional x86 systems for a variety of business computing needs will beintroduced as part of the IBM System x portfolio and IBM Express portfolioin the coming months.
For more information about IBM, go to: www.ibm.com
(1) Based on benchmark test results obtained running a Web serverworkload. Measurements were conducted by IBM using the x3650 and aprevious-generation server. Actual results obtained in a customerenvironment will depend on the application workload for that environment.
Media contact:Vineeta DuraniIBM Corporation415-545-2350vdurani@us.ibm.com
SOURCE: IBM
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