IBM x86 servers for Windows, Linux and virtualisation
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IBM System x® offers x86 servers that support Microsoft® Windows®, Linux® and virtualisation so your business can take advantage of the next big opportunity. IBM System x servers are intelligent systems designed to reduce costs and complexity. Keep your applications running and your budget in check with an x86 server from System x. Learn more (US)
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Elisabeth Stahl
Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing
Barbara Beltrame
x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist
Cliff Kinard
Social Media Strategist & Sr. Marketing Manager
Otis Lackey
System x Marketing Manager
1- and 2-socket servers
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IBM CloudBurst
Harness agile x86 technology for your private cloud.
Delivering on the promise of smarter computing
Introducing innovative new hardware, systems software and services designed and built on the precepts of smarter computing.
Flexibility. Performance. Convergence.
System x offers new powerful, flexible and affordable systems for an efficient data centre
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Highly reliable systems and solutions that are easy to deploy, use and manage
New entry priced rack and tower systems offer reliability and dependability
Boost productivity with systems optimised for small and medium businesses with limited IT resources.
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- New high-speed 40Gb Ethernet RackSwitch G8316 enables flat networks with 1.28Tb of bandwidth. (US)
- IBM comes in #1 in performance, virtualisation leadership and customer satisfaction. (US)
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The community speaks
"The IBM iDataPlex solution puts us on the same level as animation studios on the other side of the world."
- Auchuara Kijkanjanas, managing director, Kantana Animation Studios
" We tell IBM what we need to achieve, and they provide solutions that keep us a step ahead of our competition."
- Frank Bieser, CIO, HEROLD Business Data
"This implementation is an important step towards standardising the IT systems within the entire group. An application-independent server infrastructure based on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter technology allows us to operate our business applications more efficiently."
- Dirk Kastner, Chief Information Officer, EDEKA Südwest
"SAN storage and virtualised servers used to be enterprise technologies, much too expensive for most schools. That has all changed. IBM’s mid-range System x servers and System Storage disk systems are now within our reach, which means we can benefit from the lower operational costs and superior reliability provided by these technologies."
- Darren Farrow, Network Manager, Lord Grey School
Otis Lackey
System x Marketing Manager
1- and 2-socket servers
Otis is the Marketing Manager for System x 1- and 2-socket rack and tower servers, including the best-selling IBM server, the System x3650 M3. He is a frequent speaker at customer, seller and Business Partner events, and manages communications to the IBM System x seller and Business Partner community.
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Elisabeth Stahl
Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing
Elisabeth Stahl is Chief Technical Strategist, Performance Marketing for the IBM Systems and Technology Group and has been working in systems performance for over 25 years. Elisabeth’s blog is designed for the open exchange of ideas relating to systems performance and benchmarking.
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Cliff Kinard
Social Media Strategist & Sr. Marketing Manager
Cliff is one of the new "intrapreneurs" at IBM, Cliff was digital...when digital wasn't cool or profitable. Today, he is helping reinvent the IBM System x server team's social media and internet marketing approach to engaging customers in the x86, Intel® and AMD server hardware market.
Cliff’s blog:
Cliff’s blog is an open discussion of ideas relating to IBM System x and BladeCenter® servers, with experts from multiple areas lending opinions on many topics: virtualisation, VMware, networking, systems management, Linux®... just to name a few.
Other ways to connect with Cliff:
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Barbara Beltrame
x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist
Barbara is a competitive expert working with servers and cloud computing, part of an IBM worldwide team. She is a public speaker at IBM technical events and IBM Top Gun courses. In March 2011 she graduated with an MBA dissertation on the strategic implications of cloud computing for IBM x86 servers. She has been with IBM for 10 years.
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