Businesses grow. Your number of servers doesn’t have to.
Expand your midsize business, not your server room
Midsize businesses can achieve enterprise-level performance while simplifying their IT with smarter and flexible technology. Organisations like yours have been through the success of growing business from the ground up and dealing with increasing amounts of data, IT complexity, cost, and the need to meet new business requirements. Today’s business demands require decisions that will keep your business growing and taking advantage of IT solutions that offer a competitive edge.
IBM System x benefits midsize businesses with:
- Improved workload performance
- Consolidating aging servers
- Virtualisation to reduce complexity
- Reduced energy consumption and ROI improved
With our newest System x and BladeCenter servers, you get an unbeatable combination of performance and value designed to give your business the IT solutions you need while significantly lowering total cost of ownership. IBM System x and BladeCenter servers are designed to meet the needs of your midsize business now – and into the future.
IBM x86 servers have been ranked by our business clients as first in customer satisfaction based on quality and service for five consecutive quarters.1
IBM System x one- and two-socket servers
The System x portfolio of x86 one- and two-socket tower and rack servers is designed for business productivity that midsize businesses can leverage for affordability, performance and meeting flexible IT requirements. The latest additions to System x portfolio are the new System x3100 M4 tower and new System x3250 M4 rack servers. These entry-priced offerings include the next generation of Intel processors for single-socket processors, allowing midsize companies like yours to introduce business-class technology and reliability throughout your business.
IBM BladeCenter
Manage growth and reduce IT complexity on a BladeCenter platform, with flexible options to support a broad range of workloads. Blade servers provide an ideal platform for server and network virtualisation and consolidation. With their modular design, optimised for efficient use of physical space and energy, blades can support extraordinary performance while reducing your ongoing costs.
IBM eX5 systems
The new eX5 systems from IBM are a breakthrough in the x86 server landscape, thanks to the unique MAX5 memory expansion that decouples memory capacity from the number of processors. Midsize businesses can choose 2-socket systems that deliver the enterprise level-performance of 4-socket systems. eX5 scalable systems feature the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series that provide exceptional performance and reliability for your business-critical applications.
IBM System x options and upgrades
IBM System x offers quality components that will enhance and optimise your server’s performance and capability. Our storage, networking, memory, processor and rack and power infrastructure offerings are tailored for IBM System x servers and BladeCenter.
1 TBR Customer Satisfaction Study, Nov 2010.


