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IBM System p™ technology provides systems that can help you to maximize returns on your IT investments, improve responsiveness of systems and people and drive innovation with technology advancement.
Click the tabs below and discover how the newest generation of IBM servers using Power Architecture™ technology builds on our tradition of outstanding UNIX® and Linux® operating system innovation and performance to help your organization excel in an on demand world.
IBM has become the industry's number one UNIX® systems provider by delivering more performance and reliability for clients' IT investments than any other UNIX or Linux® system provider¹. IBM's consistent delivery of POWER™ processor-based systems offer leadership performance and modular designs that grow easily with your workload needs. This performance assurance gives you the ability to focus on business innovation without being slowed down by the capability and flexibility of your IT infrastructure.
Many unique characteristics of IBM mainframes have been adapted for the IBM System p servers. The System p family has achieved dramatic new industry performance records and leadership ranking in a wide range of application and industry standard benchmarks².
The new IBM POWER6™ processor and AIX 6™ operating system can put system performance, availability and efficiency into a new realm. With ultra high-frequency dual-core processor technology, two integrated hardware accelerators for enhanced performance and other industry-leading features, System p can deliver computing power with energy efficiency like never before.
AIX®, an open, UNIX operating system, allows you to run the applications you want, on the hardware you want — IBM UNIX servers. IBM System p servers provide high levels of security built into the AIX operating system and offer Security Enhanced Linux for clients who have critical Linux requirements.
Innovate with Linux! Now you can move your business-critical solutions to the Linux operating system to reduce costs and increase flexibility and continue the same quality of service achieved with a traditional UNIX operating system. Linux on POWER™ servers brings the self-healing and self-managing capabilities of the IBM POWER5+™ and POWER6™ processor architectures to Linux.
The IBM Advanced POWER™ Virtualization features can help simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure to help promote innovation. Virtualization can help significantly lower the cost of existing infrastructure and increase business flexibility, allowing you to meet unanticipated needs.
1 According to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker 2Q07
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