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xSeries delivers e-business on demand
Becoming an on-demand business is about finding new ways to grow, adapt and respond in a dynamic business environment
while managing costs. To help you become an on demand business today and tomorrow, IBM continues to invest in innovation for
true business advantage. By reducing both total costs and business risk, IBM can deliver superior value at competitive prices.
Industry-standard IBM eServer xSeries systems incorporate IBM technological innovations to help customers solve business
problems, simplifying processes and reducing costs. IBM eServer xSeries delivers superior value at competitive prices for a wide
range of servers, from entry file and print uni-processor versions, through to mission critical 32 processor solutions for CRM, ERP
and database applications, all based on Intel processors.
IBM eServer xSeries is designed for the on-demand environment with servers that can grow and adapt along with your business.
Based on industry-leading technology and the broadest support for open standards and middleware, it seamlessly integrates your
computing environment with your business applications to create a highly secure, responsive and flexible enterprise. Breakthrough
technologies for autonomic and grid computing allow IBM eServer xSeries to truly leverage your investments today, while bringing
down your total cost of ownership, and delivered by a company you can trust with world-class services and support to bring
everything together and help reduce your risk.
• Exploiting many technologies developed from our
mainframe and supercomputing operations, IBM eServer
xSeries servers work seamlessly with the other eServer
platforms, to exploit the best of each platform for optimum
efficiency.
• IBM eServer BladeCenter is proof that IBM can provide
true integration for customers, with a single platform able to
accommodate the networking, storage and Intel and IBM
Power-based server requirements for customers’
infrastructures.
• In addition IBM provides the flexibility to add new function
as and when required, by simply plugging in a new device.
The system then dynamically provisions the device based
upon pre-set criteria, so it can be rapidly up and running,
and put to work.
• Industry analysts and media confirm IBM’s leadership in
driving Linux development and deployment,
complementing the broadest range of Linux servers in the
world, from our superior IBM eServer BladeCenter,
through to virtual servers on our planned 32 way x440
enterprise server.
• Also, in the spirit of greater openness, the IBM Director
systems management suite is designed to manage clients
and servers from other manufacturers, so is an ideal
integration solution for disperate operations on multiple
platforms, often the result of acquisions or mergers.
• Because of its outstanding scalability, the eServer x440 is
an ideal solution for virtual servers. “Pay-as-you-grow”
scalability allows you to start with a 4 processor system,
and keep adding 4 processor units, to grow your system to
8, 12, and 16 way configurations, with further expansion
right up to 32 way in the future.
• You only pay for what you need, and can grow as your
business needs grow. And you can expect excellent
performance, as the x440 has many leading benchmarks,
including recent TPC-C results
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for a 16 way x440
configuration.
• Underpinning this is IBM’s award winning
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systems
management suite, IBM Director, working with enterprise
tools such as Tivoli and others, to provide error discovery,
remote provisioning and deployment, and workload
management tools, to allow you to better manage your IT
infrastructure effortlessly, with intelligent automation of
many tasks and decisions for minimum intervention.
• IBM's award winning
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systems management suite, IBM
Director, delivers many of the functions to dynamically
manage and adapt your operating environment
seamlessly, and without the need for intervention.
• This, combined with imbedded technology such as Active
Memory, Active PCI-X, and light path diagnostics, allows
IBM Director to excel at managing both IBM hardware,
and that of other manufacturers
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• These capabilities also mean that customers who require
very high levels of availability can take advantage of IBM's
99.9% availability programme
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• In addition, with IBM eServer BladeCenter, it is possible to
seamlessly deploy new resources on demand, with
standby capacity only charged for when it is brought on
line, providing levels of flexibility previously only attainable
with mainframe operations.
1. The IBM press release for this benchmark is viewable at:: http://www916.ibm.com/press/prnews.nsf/jan/5DD73B735B32878C85256CFE005CE17D. Actual
benchmark results can be viewed at www.tpc.org
2. See http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,525853,00.asp
3. http://www.pc.ibm.com/cgi-bin/global.cgi?country=emea&brand=xseries&url=/ww/eserver/xseries/999guarantee.html Terms and conditions apply
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