The Power™ 520 Express server offers outstanding business value 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 64-bit 4.2 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
1 GB to 64 GB of DDR2 SDRAM
Up to 1.8 TB; up to 30.6 TB with optional I/O drawers
The Power™ 550 Express can be used as a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform, high performing system for application and database serving or a scalable, complete business system with integrated database and application server utilizing the IBM i operating system.
Eight 64-bit 3.5 or 4.2 GHz POWER6 processor cores with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
1 GB to 256 GB DDR2
Up to 1.8 TB (30.6 TB with optional I/O drawers)
Other IBM Power products:
IBM System p™ servers are IBM's previous generation of products for AIX® and Linux® clients. Subsequently replaced by the new IBM Power™ Systems, System p models and resources remain available for AIX and Linux clients.
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.