The IBM System x3950 M2 and its 4 socket sibling the x3850 M2 are built on IBM eX4 technology, supporting the performance, reliability and scalability your critical business applications demand.

With efficient design, both models are ideal for virtualization and server consolidation. With just one server, you can support a large number of applications, with a higher threshold for protecting data. Combining memory scrubbing, IBM’s patented Chipkill™ and Memory ProteXion™ technologies, as well as memory mirroring, the system’s enhanced memory subsystems work together to minimize bottlenecks, promoting fast, efficient and balanced functionality for ERP, database and other demanding business applications

Operating at a lower wattage than competitive systems, the new servers offer power-efficiency features to help you save operational costs. For example, the DDR II memory used in the x3850M2 and x3950 M2 uses up to 37% less power than the Fully Buffered DIMMs used by the competition, with no loss in performance. IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ helps monitor and cap power consumption to improve energy efficiency and help lower costs.

With the ability to scale up sixteen sockets — a maximum of 96 cores using Intel® six-core processors — the x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 are designed to offer easy, flexible expansion to meet a wide range of business application demands. For example, you can populate as few as two CPUs per chassis while still using all memory DIMMs. With six-core processors, this configuration allows for the creation of a 12-core, 32-DIMM server utilizing only two processor sockets.

This flexibility offers extraordinary price-performance balance for applications constrained by socket-based licensing. As demands grow, the system can be scaled to a 48-core, 128-DIMM server utilizing only eight sockets, or all the way up to 16 sockets, 96 cores, and 256 DIMMs (1TB) to meet the need for virtualization, databases, and other applications requiring massive memory capacity, many processors/cores, and tremendous I/O bandwidth and flexibility. Equally important, the x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 provide industry-leading reliability and availability features.