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Announcing systems and solutions for a Smarter Planet

IBM introduces new POWER7® processor-based systems, software and solutions for companies of all sizes. New high-end offerings redefine computing to address the challenges of a smarter planet — large scale business analytics and databases, high volume transaction processing, and consolidation to exponentially lower costs. New Express systems and solutions for midsize businesses offer attractively priced servers and upgrades, integrated mission-critical solutions, and proven capabilities to simplify server rooms while positioning companies for future growth.

Power is workload optimizing systems

New systems added to the POWER7 processor-based server family.

IBM Power 795: The most powerful UNIX® system ever with extraordinary scalability and configuration flexibility.
IBM Power 710, 720, 730 and 740 Express: The lowest priced POWER7 energy efficient systems for midsize businesses.
IBM i Solution Editions for the core business needs of midsize clients, featuring software from Infor, Lawson, Oracle JD Edwards and SAP.
IBM i Edition Express for BladeCenter S: Integrates IBM i and Windows blades in the same chassis for consolidation of web, database and application workloads.

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Power is the future of UNIX

AIX® 7 is the only UNIX operating system designed to scale in support of today's massive transaction and throughput computing workloads – with up to 1024 threads on POWER7. It includes new virtualization capabilities designed to simplify the consolidation of older, AIX V5.2 applications as well as built-in clustering capability that provides a scalable clustering infrastructure foundation for PowerHA SystemMirror resiliency solutions. AIX 7 is guaranteed to be binary compatible with AIX 6, AIX 5L™ and even earlier versions of AIX, and is available in Standard, Enterprise and Express Editions. Early access for testing is now available via the AIX 7 Open Beta program.

Power is resiliency without downtime

Leverage decades of IBM experience in designing and deploying high availability solutions. PowerHA SystemMirror disk clustering solutions are available to help keep your systems—and your business—running 24x7x365.

PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 Standard Edition is designed for datacenter high availability clusters and is now fully integrated with the built in clustering capability of AIX 7
PowerHA SystemMirror 6.1 Enterprise Edition is packaged for multi-site clusters and now supports IBM DS8000 Global Mirror and Hitachi Truecopy storage clusters

Power is integrated value

Realize business value quickly with solutions designed to exploit POWER7 systems. The latest workload-optimized solutions from Power include the following:

IBM Smart Analytics 7700 provides for real-time analysis and automated business decision making
IBM Rational Power Appliance delivers an integrated server designed for individual and team-based application development
Rational also announces new COBOL complier support for AIX with Rational Developer for Power and Rational Team Concert for Power, plus a Statement of Direction to provide support for Fortran, C/C++ compilers on Linux®
Power Systems are cloud optimized, delivering differentiated virtualization for enterprises large and small
Tivoli Usage Accounting Manager 7.1.3 on Power now provides information on system usage by user, group, virtual machine and application for fine-tuning of infrastructure and more specific accounting options