Move Up to IBM Power Systems

Power—it's an IT obsession. Getting enough processing power at a good price is always a priority. Total cost of ownership is also a concern. Getting power into the hands of the right people at the right time is a daily challenge. If you're ready to migrate to servers that meet all your business and IT requirements, you need to learn more about POWER6 processor-based technology.

IBM Power™ Systems servers are setting new standards for performance, availability and efficiency. The IBM Power 570 and Power 595 use industry-leading POWER6 processor capabilities to provide a superior RISC server consolidation platform. The IBM Power 520 Express and IBM Power 550 Express use the same technology to provide outstanding single application and distributed application performance and are also consolidation platforms for smaller enterprises. The IBM BladeCenter® JS12 Express and JS22 Express blade servers leverage those same capabilities in the industry-leading BladeCenter chassis. With jaw-dropping performance – of up to two to three times that of HP and Sun – and higher energy efficiency than RISC competitors, it's no wonder that the industry is buzzing about Power servers. Built on smart consolidation, virtualization and distributed platform strategies, POWER6 technology makes it easy to allocate the power you need and to get it under control. Running UNIX®, IBM i, operating system (formerly i5/OS) and Linux® workloads, Power Systems perform. Want to talk specs and stats? Compare the performance of servers and learn how Power Systems can power your business forward

Go Green and Save

Power efficiency. The POWER6 energy efficiency story is very simple. Start with processors that deliver two to three times the maximum performance per core so that you need less hardware. Consolidate and use PowerVM virtualization to get tremendous utilization of those fast processors and the other hardware in POWER6 processor-based servers. Leverage EnergyScale™ technology to control and minimize the energy required to do your job. And manage the all the energy management features with Active Energy Management tools. The result is huge energy savings – up to 90% in some cases. Learn more about Power Systems power efficiency.

Manage Growth, Complexity and Risk

Power performance and power availability. Power Systems servers grow with your business. That's the beauty of the modular design of the Power 520 Express, 550 Express, 570 and 595 for scale-up applications and the BladeCenter chassis for scale-out applications. Linear scalability is central to our systems. The 4-core 570 supports 2,035 SAP users, the 8-core system supports 4,010 users and the 16-core 570 system supports up to 8,000 SAP users. Now that's near linear scalability! And the top end has 1.4 times the user capacity of a 32-core HP Integrity Superdome, and 1.1 times the user capacity of the 32-core Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 – more performance with 1/2 the hardware. That is a 16-core server. The performance of the 64-core 595 is even more breathtaking. So, whether your business is small, medium, large or still growing, Power Systems will provide consistently superior scale-up performance. For scale-out performance, use our IBM BladeCenter H with the JS12 Express or JS22 Express blades. The BladeCenter H supports up to 14 blades in only 15.75 inches (9U) of rack space. If you need more performance, just add another high-performance blade. If you fill up the chassis, add another one – four fit in a standard 42U rack. Learn more about power performance.

When you run this much work on a system, keeping it running all the time becomes critical to the success of your business. POWER6 processors and our servers were designed with this in mind. Mainframe-inspired availability features like Alternate Processor Retry and First Failure Data Capture are examples of features designed to minimize unplanned outages only available on IBM UNIX, IBM i, and Linux systems. Live Partition Mobility and Live Application Mobility are features of PowerVM and AIX® 6 respectively that allow running partitions or workloads to be moved from one server to another without interruption. Upgrade, perform maintenance, increase processor nodes and barrel through planned outages without disrupting service. According to a study by ITG, over a 5-year period, these IBM exclusives can reduce the cost of downtime up to 59 percent.

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Realize Innovation

Power your business to new levels of innovation today and new capabilities tomorrow. The energy efficiency of POWER6 processor-based servers can allow you to implement new applications that might otherwise have to wait until you build your next data center. The performance and virtualization features of System p and BladeCenter servers can enable you to free up the resources needed for new systems uses. And the availability features of the p570 and JS22 Express give you the confidence that the systems will be there for even the most demanding new tasks. Move up to POWER6 processor-based technology and let innovation begin.