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Reduce your costs and simplify IT deployment and management with new rack and tower servers


In the current economic environment, you need servers that help you manage costs. But you also need servers that offer:

  • high performance – to keep your business productive
  • ease of use – to allow your IT staff to focus on business innovation rather than IT administration
  • quality – to help you keep your critical applications running

IBM System x servers are designed to help you meet these demands, offering not only low cost, but also extraordinary value with the most energy efficient two-socket servers in the market. IBM has a heritage of offering best in class reliability and flexibility, and with the newest Intel processors, these new one- and two-socket servers are designed to offer the performance your business needs. And IBM tools are designed to simplify management of these servers to help increase efficiency and reduce total cost of ownership.

Reduce costs with energy-smart two-socket servers

The System x3650 M2 and System x3550 M2 rack servers offer better energy efficiency than competitive servers according to SpecPower, reducing energy costs by up to $100 per server per year(1). With these servers, you get new energy-smart design features to help you reduce total cost of ownership, including:

  • low–wattage, efficient power supplies
  • counter-rotating fans
  • altimeter
  • advanced power management tools

Depend on the quality of these growth engine servers

Designed to be growth engines for expanding businesses, the IBM System x3500 M2 and x3400 M2 offer proven reliability, availability and security. These servers also give you the flexibility you need with innovative features such as hot-swap power supplies, fans and storage modules. Because downtime is not an option, they also offer robust security features including front and back chassis locks, proven Trusted Platform Module technology for hardware security, and an option for full hardware-based data encryption.

Expect high performance from our newest one-socket servers

The new generation System x3200 M3 and System x3250 M3 servers give you as much computing power as previous generation multi-socket servers but are priced to buy now. And, when business demands change, so can your servers. You can customize System x servers to fit your needs: high performance or low cost and still get the performance, security, simplicity, efficiency, and reliability you need to run your business.

Significantly reduce administration costs

These new servers support:

  • more efficient BIOS management with UEFI BIOS with a single consistent level code stack, advanced setup and simple configuration
  • powerful remote control capability for management, monitoring and troubleshooting with Integrated Management Module (IMM)
  • an easy way to find, choose and learn management tools with IBM's ToolsCenter
  • IBM System Director 6.1 with easy-to-use, powerful tools for managing both physical and virtual resources

Designed to provide leading virtualization capabilities, the x3650 M2, x3550 M2, x3400 M2 and the x3500 M2 support solutions from VMware and other industry leaders. Through virtualization and consolidation, your server environment can handle intense processing demands without adding data center resources or space. In addition, these servers offer exceptional memory capacity per core, enabling you to implement a virtualized environment efficiently and cost-effectively.

The new servers are also designed to be extremely reliable and easy to manage. Light path diagnostics and Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) are designed to help you identify hardware problems before they happen and fix them quickly. And with redundant, hot swap power supplies, fans and storage drives, these servers are designed to be ideal platforms for business critical applications.


(1) IBM Engineering Research Study, Feb’09

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