The New Power Equation for the New Enterprise Data Center
The IBM Power Architecture® has helped clients around the world to redefine how their IT infrastructure supports their business objectives: from energy and physical space savings, to improved management and the ability to react quickly to changing processing requirements.
Taking a cue from the power equation in physics — where power equals the time rate of doing work — our clients have begun writing their own Power™ equations based on their experiences running IBM AIX® (US) , IBM i operating system (US) (formerly i5/OS) and Linux® (US) operating systems on this high performance architecture.
IBM's Power Architecture has become so popular in helping Enterprise clients address their IT optimization challenges that in 2007 over 43% of all mid-range and high-end UNIX and Linux server spending was on IBM's POWER processor-based systems 1 .
Power = i + p
Now, IBM announces Power™ Systems, a major new platform that provides a compelling new choice for the data center. Based on IBM POWER6™ processors, IBM Power Systems are the new infrastructure foundation for companies who share the vision of creating a New Enterprise Data Center.
IBM Power Systems unifies IBM's highly successful integrated platform, IBM System i™, with its fast growing UNIX® operating system platform, IBM System p™. Now you can take advantage of this single platform for all of your UNIX, Linux and IBM i applications, with mission-critical virtualization provided by PowerVM™ (US)
Power = performance + scalability
Announcing the new Power™ 595 (UK), breaking the 5 GHz barrier, and again securing leadership benchmark status that simply cannot be paralleled. It is the ultimate platform for consolidation of UNIX, Linux and i applications with IBM’s unique virtualization technologies that make it perfect for the New Enterprise Data Center since you can run separate, secure PowerVM partitions on a single server. It also includes the most memory and largest capacity ever built for a commercial SMP UNIX system.
What's more, every Power 595 comes with the new PowerCare Services package. You can elect to take advantage of one of five IBM best practices engagements from IBM’s world class services organization or business partners — at no additional cost.
Power = compute + cool
The new Power 575 (UK) puts an entirely different perspective on high performance computing — with its unique water-cooled design. Delivering 5X the performance and nearly three times more energy efficiency than its predecessor, the Power 575 is designed to help you solve the world's most complex computing challenges.
In fact, all Power systems have POWER6 EnergyScale™ technology with innovative technologies to reduce the energy consumption of every single system. These include features like Active Energy Manager, thermal capping, nap mode and variable speed fans.
Power = modularity + flexibility
The modular design of the System p 570 and System i 570 combined with the performance of POWER6 processors has made the 570 the most popular mid-range server in its class — with clients buying more units than any competitive option 1 . Now, the new Power 570 (UK) continues that tradition of modular growth by adding the flexibility of complete freedom of choice in running UNIX, Linux or IBM i applications on a single system that is the leading transaction processing system in it’s class, delivering over 100,000 transactions per minute per core 2 — something no other mid-range server can deliver.
Power = choice + flexibility
Choose the AIX, i, or Linux Edition that best suits your application and business requirements. Whether you need a high performing system for database serving, a distributed application server, an integrated business solution, or a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform, the Power 520 (UK) and Power 550 Express servers can fulfill your requirements in a small rack or tower form factor.
Built on the promise of the IBM BladeCenter® family of products — easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, scalability and manageability — the BladeCenter JS12 Express (UK) is an extremely affordable 2-core POWER6 processor-based blade server with large memory and disk capacity and the capability to run AIX, IBM i or Linux applications — concurrently if desired. The JS12 Express is the perfect complement to the 4-core BladeCenter JS22 Express blade server and increases the ways clients can put this power to work with support for the latest BladeCenter chassis and a broad range of operating systems and applications.
Power = choice - risk
Introducing the new Power Rewards, comprehensive trade-in program with migration services to mitigate the risks of getting to the 'right' platform — and stay there! Whatever your requirements, Power Systems makes it simpler than ever to choose the right solutions from a broad range of servers for any processing requirement platform. That's why it makes perfect sense to move to Power Systems as part of your New Enterprise Data Center.
Call your IBM representative or IBM business partner to find out how you can take advantage of Power Systems and Power Systems Software to create your own New Power Equation.
