IBM eX5 enterprise systems
Breakthrough innovation for smarter computing
IBM eX5 enterprise systems are at the leading edge of innovation for the new era of enterprise computing. In this business environment, bigger is not enough. Today's enterprise computing solutions must be flexible enough 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 optimisation, intelligent analytics, virtualisation and asset utilisation, data centre efficiencies and IT economics—all solutions enterprise IT leaders are challenged to meet as the new focus on smarter business becomes a reality.
- eX5 systems feature exclusive IBM X-Architecture innovations that deliver unparalleled capabilities, while continuing to leverage open, standards-based components for affordability, flexibility and choice.
- Designed and optimised for mission-critical, enterprise-class workloads, eX5 systems provide leadership performance, scalability and reliability.
- Unique eX5 innovations enable our clients to achieve faster time to value with pre-integrated systems and solutions that speed deployment, lower costs and increase responsiveness.
Roland Hagan, World Wide VP IBM System x Servers, discusses the March 2010 eX5 announcement.
IBM eX5 systems benefits
IBM eX5 enterprise systems, featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family, provide breakthrough innovation for smarter computing.
Integrated
- Optimised systems for database deliver increased performance for your most demanding transactional database workloads.
- Optimised systems for virtualisation deliver more memory for more partitions and larger workloads.
- Optimised systems for SAP In-Memory Appliance, SAP HANA™ enables users to model and analyse their company's SAP transactional and operational data from virtually any data source in near-real time.
- Solutions with IBM DB2 pureScale enable customers to scale mission-critical, performance-sensitive databases simply, incrementally, and without limit using affordable, industry-standard servers.
- IBM Smart Analytics System solutions provide cost effective options for customers looking to deploy analytics and business intelligence capabilities quickly on a powerful warehousing foundation.
- Efficient
- More memory for rack and blade servers with MAX5 memory expansion option
- More virtual machine partitions with larger capacity and improved server utilisation
- Bigger databases and faster database performance
- eXFlash solid state storage designed to improve performance and reduce database storage and energy costs
- Scale from 1 to 2 nodes with HX5 (2- to 4-sockets) and x3850 (4- to 8- sockets)
- Intelligent
- Reduce qualification time with a single architecture across blade servers and 2-way & 4-way rack servers
- Gain the ability to expand memory, processors, and I/O independently
- Use IBM Systems Director and its plug-ins to simplify provisioning and updating
- o Reduce overall costs on software licensing with higher performance per socket,certification/testing costs with simplified deployment or energy costs with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
And all of the benefits in the eX5 portfolio of systems are easy to acquire, own and manage and include OnForever™ reliability for maximum availability.
IBM eX5 systems innovations include:
MAX5 – Unprecedented memory expansion with the external MAX5 memory option, decoupling server memory from system processors to allow you to optimise your server performance
eXFlash – Get dramatically faster I/O, with greater storage density and improved reliability
FlexNode – Gain the ability to re-deploy your server on a project-by-project basis for superior asset utilisation and workload management
Scalability – Updating IBM's innovative 'pay-as-you-grow' capability by enabling all eX5 servers to scale
Workload optimised systems – Delivering specific workload-tuned models to minimise your time to value by leveraging IBM's unique expertise
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