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The entry level Power Express systems bring the performance and scalability of POWER7 processors into compact 2U and 4U racks and tower form factors.

The IBM Power 710 is a dense, 1-socket, 2U rack server with 4, 6, or 8 processor cores that can fit seamlessly as a replacement for existing infrastructure or scale out application servers.

• 24 Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 systems can be consolidated to a single Power 710 1 socket system, saving 95% of the cores for software licensing, 95% on floor space, and 94% on energy.³

The IBM Power 730 is a 2-socket, 2U rack-optimized server with up to 16 cores per system. It is designed to reduce data center costs by running multiple application and infrastructure workloads in a virtualized environment

• Consolidate 47 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers to a single Power 730 2 socket system to reduce energy costs by 98%, floor space by 97% and use 83% fewer cores.⁴
• The Power 730 Express system and the PS702 are the highest performing 2-socket systems and blades in the industry for Java⁵ or integer⁶ based workloads.

The IBM Power 750 is the first 4-socket RISC server, with up to 8 POWER7 cores per socket, to be ENERGY STAR®-qualified.

• The IBM Power 750 Express is the highest performing 4-socket system on the planet. In addition it outperforms all other non-IBM 8 and 16-socket systems.⁷
• The IBM Power 750 Express is the most energy efficient 4-socket system on the planet.⁸
• The IBM Power 750 Express has more SAP performance than any 8-socket system in the industry – and is even comparable to a 128-core, 32-socket Sun M9000.⁹
• Consolidation onto POWER7 can deliver significant savings. One hundred Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 servers can be consolidated into a single IBM Power 750 Express system, saving 95% of the cores for software licensing, 97% of the floor space, and 95% of the maximum energy requirement.¹⁰
• 345 million kilowatt-hours are used yearly by the 91,920 Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 servers shipped since 2005 above what would be used yearly if consolidated into 1,000 IBM Power 750 Express servers at the rate of 100 to 1.¹¹
• The IBM Power 750 Express has 28% more performance than a 64-core HP Integrity Superdome and requires only 83% as much power to run – at a fraction of the price.¹²

IBM POWER7 processor-based servers take UNIX® systems to new levels of throughput, performance, and scalability.

The Power 780 scalable high-end servers feature an advanced modular design with up to 64 POWER7 cores. Its TurboCore™ workload optimizing mode maximizes per core database performance; MaxCore mode maximizes throughput -- only POWER7 excels at both.

• The IBM Power 780 delivers leadership performance and consolidation capability vs. HP and Sun high-end servers. For example, eight HP Integrity Superdome 64 core systems utilized at 30% can be consolidated into a single IBM Power 780 server utilized at 80%, thus saving 87% of the cores for software licensing, reducing floor space from 80 square feet to 7.6 square feet, and reducing energy costs by 92%.¹³
• Overall, the Power 780 delivered more than four times the performance-per-core of the fastest HP Itanium or Sun SPARC system and over 1.8x the performance-per-core of the fastest Intel x86-based system in the TPC-C benchmark.¹⁴
• For businesses that run SAP, Power 780 handled 37,000 users on 64 cores – 16% more users than a 256-core Sun Enterprise M9000 and 130% more users than a 64-core Fujitsu system running Intel Xeon® X7560 chips.¹⁵
• The Power 780 also demonstrated the ability to deliver leadership, workload-optimized performance by setting new performance records across the three major industry standard processor benchmarks for Java, integer and high performance computing workloads achieving between 1.8 and 3.0 times the performance of all other competitive published 8-socket results.¹⁶
• The Power 780 also delivers unprecedented price for performance on transaction processing workloads. The first server to deliver over 1.2 million transactions per minute for less than $0.75 per transaction, the Power 780 delivers the performance and scalability of large systems for the cost of a small system. The 1.2 million transactions per minute establishes a new record in performance per core – 4.6 times an HP Superdome and 7.5 times a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 cluster running Oracle RAC.¹⁷
• The Power 780 uses up to 87% fewer cores than a Sun SPARC Enterprise Cluster to deliver over one million transactions per minute enabling clients to slash database licensing and maintenance costs by 80%. In addition the Power 780 is 3.4 times more energy efficiency.¹⁸

The introduction of the IBM Power 795 creates a new class of high end UNIX system. The Power 795 server uses 64-bit POWER7 eight-core processor technology in up to 256-core configurations with PowerVM™ virtualization.

• More than four times that of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 and three times that of the HP SuperDome, the Power 795 is the ideal for large scale data center consolidation.¹⁹
• The IBM Power 795 delivers leadership performance and consolidation capability vs. HP and Sun high-end servers. For example, ten 128 core HP Superdome systems running at 50% utilization can be consolidated on one Power 795 utilized at 80%, dramatically reducing the number of cores to be licensed for software, and energy consumption.²⁰

IBM also has introduced Power Flex, a new environment composed of two or more Power 795 systems, PowerVM with Live Partition Mobility and a Flex Capacity Upgrade on Demand option. This solutions enables clients to shift running applications from one system to another to help balance workloads, more easily handle peaks in demand, and perform system maintenance - all without downtime.

IBM BladeCenter® delivers an innovative, open design and offers a true alternative to today's sprawling racks and overheated server rooms. So toss your cables and take the leap. Migrate to the blade solution that uses less energy and gives more choices and control.

IBM brings the extraordinary value of IBM BladeCenter to the UNIX, i and Linux market with the POWER7 processor-based blade servers. Designed for virtualization and performance, BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 blades feature IBM's latest POWER processor technology — the world's fastest microprocessors. Couple that superior performance with Power Systems Software™ like IBM PowerVM and you now have the opportunity to consolidate your UNIX, i and Linux applications onto POWER processor-based blades like never before.

• Achieve 39% lower total cost of acquisition with a full BladeCenter H chassis with 7 two socket (16-core) PS702 blades instead of a full HP C7000 Blade chassis with 16 two socket (12-core) HP BL460c G6 blades, leveraging the higher utilization and virtualization efficiencies of Power blades.²¹
• POWER7 blades are better than Oracle Sun’s T6340 blades in every important performance category: relative performance, performance density, and performance per watt.²²
• The Power 730 Express system and the PS702 are the highest performing 2-socket systems and blades in the industry for Java⁵ or integer⁶ based workloads.