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Whether you are in financial services, insurance or banking, changes that happen in a millisecond can affect your bottom line. To compete effectively, leaders need to orchestrate components of their infrastructures that enable new levels of performance and to reduce cost and complexity. You require access to the most experienced high-performance computing capabilities in order to incorporate emerging technologies and tune your computing environments. At the same time, you need to continue to operate your existing infrastructures at the fringe of your original design points.
As the leader in high-performance computing (HPC) for financial services, according to the June 2008 Top500 list, and voted the best grid infrastructure solutions provider in the Waters Rankings 2008 user survey, IBM knows how to help! IBM servers, storage and services combine high-performance technologies and expertise to help you create a resilient infrastructure with the performance, flexibility and extraordinary energy efficiency your financial workloads demand. IBM's rich solutions portfolio can help optimize your infrastructure and improve your competitive advantage.
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IBM BladeCenter® systems integrate servers, storage and networking, offering up to 31 percent more density, a wide selection of processor technologies, improved power and cooling, and simplified management to help you reduce data center complexity without sacrificing superior performance.
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BladeCenter QS22, based on the new IBM PowerXCell™ 8i multi-core processor, offers extraordinary double-precision floating-point computing power to accelerate key financial algorithms and streaming applications in a standard blade server. In addition, as of June 2008, the QS22 is the top-ranked energy-efficient supercomputer on the Green500 list and the fastest supercomputer in the world according to the Top500 list.
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IBM System x™ iDataPlex™ revolutionizes data center economics by packing double the number of servers in a single rack, using up to 40 percent less energy for heating and cooling, and providing simplified systems management in a flexible, modular design, while helping to increase the computing performance of your data center.
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IBM System Cluster 1350™ offers an integrated, factory-built and factory-tested cluster solution with comprehensive warranty service for all cluster components, including third-party options. This highly acclaimed solution offers many significant advantages, including reduced installation and deployment time, while providing exceptional scalability and performance at a price even a CFO could love.
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See how storage has been reinvented by XIV, an IBM company, and Diligent, an IBM company. IBM XIV® grid-based storage design, using single-tier storage architecture, helps provide excellent performance scalability and extreme ease of management. IBM Diligent™ technology provides single-instance storage, helping to reduce the amount of space wasted in data centers by saving multiple copies of e-mails and other data.
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If your computing demands exceed in-house capacity, shift your excess workload to a highly secure, global IBM Computing on Demand center to obtain extra processing power — by the hour, week or year — as needed. Tap into the IBM cloud now!
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 BladeCenter QS22 Solutions |
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 IBM Computing on Demand – when you need it |
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 iDataPlex: massive scale-out computing power |
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