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Your business is poised to take advantage of the next big opportunity. But is your IT environment ready to help you meet your goals? Or will it hold you back? When you need to grow your business, IBM System x can help you drive forward. IBM advancements in scalability, reliability and performance can help you create a dynamic, streamlined infrastructure so you can take your business where you want it to go. At IBM we want to provide the technology that will truly help businesses innovate and thrive. We make that possible today and we have a vision and dedication to improving upon it in the future.

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Realize innovation

Clients across myriad industries have told us that x86 servers are the foundation on which their businesses are built. So why not buy from a server provider you can count on? IBM is the right choice. IBM System x is a portfolio of robust x86 servers built on IBM X-Architecture® – our blueprint for bringing innovation to x86 servers. Innovation that helps set you apart from the competition. For example, an IT infrastructure that is more reliable, more available and can be built in a more flexible manner can enable you to get your applications or products into production earlier. More affordable IT allows you to take the money that is saved and use it to fuel innovation projects.

Improve application performance, manage growth, complexity and risk

The proliferation of servers, along with their management and asset control, makes it difficult to manage your data center. Intelligent, open management tools on System x servers, such as IBM Systems Director, help simplify your IT and reduce costs by tracking and deploying assets, optimizing application performance and enabling remote maintenance.

A smart system design that includes multiple layers of redundancy and memory protection combined with advanced availability tools help keep your systems up and running.

With the IBM System x3950M2, customers have the ability to scale up to 16 sockets, you can grow as needed. With a data center that's easier to manage, you can focus on growing your business.

And, the IBM System x3950M2 is unrivaled in it's application performance vs. the competition with these outstanding performance benchmarks:

• When it comes to ground breaking performance for SAP applications in an 8 core 2 tier environments, the IBM x3950M2, with Intel XEON 7400 series processors, can handle 31% more users, translating to more users per socket than the HP ProLiant DL 785 G5². This makes the x3950M2 ideal to efficiently grow SAP environments by using fewer servers for the same or increased workloads, which increase performance, can reduce power, software and administration costs
• The IBM x3850 M2 with the Intel® Xeon® 6 core 7470 processor architecture sets the top result for Oracle E-Business R12 payroll batch processing running on an Oracle Database 10g and RHEL 4. This new technology combination can process a payroll update for 244,419 employees in only one hour.³

Go green and save

Managing energy in the data center is a growing concern due to the increasing numbers of servers, the incremental heat they generate and ultimately, the rising cost of energy. With System x servers, IBM has created technologies that not only help increase performance per watt, but also help you budget, plan and control power usage. And, by consolidating and virtualizing on IBM System x and BladeCenter servers, you can increase the utilization of hardware and decrease the number of physical assets you need to watch over. With the IBM Director extension, IBM Virtualization Manager, managing your virtualized server is even easier, giving you a single interface to manage physical and virtual systems from almost anywhere.

With the x3650M2, IBM has new leadership with an energy smart design featuring lower wattage efficient power supplies, counter rotating fans, an altimeter & advanced power mgmt can reduce annual energy costs by up to $100/server per pear. Also, the new x3550M2 and x3650M2 is future-proofed with next-generation BIOS technology called UEFI that offers more functionality and fully supports today’s and tomorrow’s operating systems.