| Feature |
Benefits |
| Advanced POWER5 microprocessor |
- Offers an ideal platform to help you reduce the cost and complexity of your IT environments
- Helps you deploy new business applications quickly with a rapid ROI, and improve overall systems management
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| Integrated i5/OS operating system and middleware |
- This highly integrated approach is designed to make these systems easier to install, easier to use and easier to manage compared to competitive server architectures
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| Multiple operating system support |
- Provides you with the flexibility to select the right operating system and the right application to meet your needs
- Designed to help you simplify your IT environment and broaden your application choices
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| Outstanding portfolio of software solutions |
- With support of i5/OS, Linux, AIX® on POWER processors, and even Windows and Linux applications via System x and BladeCenter integration, the System i family offers the broadest choice of applications available on a single system
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| Robust server consolidation |
- Reduce costs and enable business investment by consolidating multiple servers, operating systems and applications onto a single system
- Provides a self-managing and self-tuning environment that maximizes the cost savings from server consolidation
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| Micro-Partitioning™ |
- Enables you to make a single processor act like many separate servers that operate independently, yet have the advantage of shared resources and simple, centralized management
- Offers greater flexibility in using available capacity and more rapidly matching resources to changing business requirements
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| Mainframe-inspired RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) |
- Technology built into the System i platform helps to automate systems management tasks and prevent downtime
- Mainframe-inspired RAS capabilities include Error Checking & Correction, First Failure Data Capture, hot-swappable components and redundant service processors
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| Editions offerings |
- Flexible option packages help reduce complexity and maximize your business value
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| Windows and Linux integration on BladeCenter or System x integration via iSCSI* |
- Delivers tightly integrated, easily managed Intel® server deployment solutions to help provide a cost-effective and efficient alternative to running Windows or Linux on multiple stand-alone Intel servers
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| Includes WebSphere Application Server—Express |
- You can easily extend your core business applications to the Web to integrate with suppliers, partners and customers
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| Built-in security and virus resistance |
- Security is built into i5/OS, which you can use to help address regulatory compliance processes and safeguard customer data
- i5/OS supports an object-based design that makes it highly resistant to viruses
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| Virtual Ethernet |
- Provides fast, safe, reliable communications between operating systems and partitions within the system
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| Virtual I/O |
- Helps save cost and ease systems administration by sharing expensive resources
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| Storage Virtualization |
- i5/OS provides SAN-like facilities for operating environments resulting in more efficient and manageable storage utilization
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| Capacity on Demand* |
- Enables you to turn on computing power and memory as business requirements change
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| Exceptional price/performance |
- A simple, affordable solution, with outstanding capability providing the flexibility to grow to meet new business demands
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