IBM Power™ Systems — a single, energy efficient and easy-to-deploy platform for all of your UNIX®, Linux® and IBM i applications.
| Product | Business use | Processor (Max) | Memory (Min/Max) | Internal storage (Max) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM Power 520 Express |
The Power™ 520 Express server offers outstanding business value for many small and mid-sized companies as an affordable UNIX® and Linux distributed application, small database server, or as a complete integrated business system utilizing the IBM i operating system. | One, two or four 4.2 or 4.7 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 2 GB to 64 GB | 73.4 GB to 30.6 TB (with optional I/O drawers) |
| IBM Power 550 Express |
The Power 550 Express platform is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium-sized businesses with the leadership performance, choice of operating systems, and proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM™. | Two, four, six or eight-core POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 4 GB to 256 GB | 73.4 GB to 30.6 TB (with optional I/O drawers) |
| IBM Power 560 Express ![]() |
The Power™ 560 Express can be used as a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performance system for application and database serving. | Sixteen 64-bit 3.6 GHz POWER6 processor cores with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | 8 GB to 384 GB DDR2 | Up to 2.7 TB per 560 building block |
Other IBM Power products:
IBM System i™ is IBM's previous generation of systems designed for IBM i clients. Subsequently replaced by the new IBM Power™ Systems, System i models and resources remain available for IBM i clients.

