| Ultra-high frequency POWER6 processors |
- Designed to provide excellent application performance
- Includes new high reliability features such as Processor Instruction Retry, Alternate Processor Recovery and storage keys
- Provides integrated hardware acceleration for Decimal Hardware Floating-Point operations
- Improve response time and transaction processing efficiency
- Designed with simultaneous multithreading to help increase commercial system performance and processor utilization
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| Extensive scalability and configuration options |
- Deliver data faster for the needs of large-scale transaction processing and memory-intensive applications
- Allow growth of existing applications or addition of new applications without adding new servers
- High-density 24-inch system frame enables the most efficient, large scale consolidation and maximum growth
- Offer flexibility and built-in redundancy so the system can grow with your business
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| Mission-critical application availability |
- Provides 24x7 access to enterprise applications
- Increases IT productivity by avoiding costly downtime and recovery
- Enables monitoring, detection and resolution of issues without disruption
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| PowerVM virtualization |
- Improves system efficiency to lower operational expense
- Provides flexibility to rapidly respond to changing business requirements, including reallocation of system resources without rebooting affected partitions
- Provides the ability to transparently share processing power and memory between partitions and to handle unexpected workload peaks by sharing resources
- Enables energy savings and maintains application availability
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| Flexibility with Capacity on Demand |
- Allows standby processors and memory to be permanently added to meet long term workload growth
- Provides temporary access to additional processors and memory to meet business spikes
- Provides prepaid access to processors to meet intermittent or seasonal demands
- Offers a one-time 30 day trial to test increased processor or memory capacity before permanent activation
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| EnergyScale technology |
- Helps lower data center energy costs without sacrificing performance or business flexibility
- Enables management to understand power and cooling usage and better predict peak requirements
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| Multiple operating system support |
- Provides the flexibility to select the right operating system and the right applications to meet needs
- Enables enterprises to consolidate applications onto a more scalable, cost-effective system
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