In today’s business environment, enterprise computing solutions must be flexible to adapt to evolving day-to-day business requirements while providing exceptional performance, scalability and reliability. The IBM eX5 portfolio, with systems, management and support options, can solve for workload optimization, intelligent analytics, cloud and asset utilization, data center efficiencies and IT economics.
Memory
Unprecedented memory expansion with the external MAX5 memory option, decoupling server memory from system processors to allow you to optimize your server performance.
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Faster I/O with eXFlash
Get dramatically faster I/O, with greater storage density and improved reliability.
Flexibility
Gain the ability to re-deploy your server on a project-by-project basis for superior asset utilization and workload management.
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x86 & Cloud Competitive Specialist
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IBM System x-Based Workload-Optimized Solutions Senior Technical Member
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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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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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The System x and BladeCenter x86 Server 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: virtualization, VMware, networking, systems management, Linux®... just to name a few.
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The System x and BladeCenter x86 Server 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: virtualization, VMware, networking, systems management, Linux®... just to name a few.
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