IBM x86 systems offer maximum memory for superior database performance
Your business runs on data. You collect more of it every day. You demand more insight from it every day. To get the most out of your data, you need a dynamic and scalable infrastructure that helps you respond quickly to changing business demands. IBM System x® and BladeCenter® systems are designed for performance and reliability while offering ease of deployment, management and extraordinary flexibility and efficiency.
Increase performance & accelerate deployment with new database optimised systems.
IBM System x and BladeCenter workload optimised systems for database are preconfigured, pretested configurations, optimised to deliver increased performance for your most demanding transactional database workloads. Containing the right balance of processing power, memory and I/O, and pretested with industry-leading database software, these server configurations can help reduce your expenses with no trade-offs to business productivity. And unlike the competition, IBM provides you with the opportunity to order a pre-integrated system that’s easy-to-deploy - containing all of the necessary components - to get your business-critical workloads up and running within minutes.
x3950 X5 Workload optimised System for Database
7143-D1x
- Four Intel® Xeon® E7-4850 10-core 2.0 GHz processors
- eXFlash module with 16 x 200 GB SSDs
- Two 320 GB High IOPS SSD PCIe adapters
- 128 GB (32 x 4 GB) of Low Power ECC RDIMM memory
- Flexible “pay-as-you-grow” design
7143-D2x
- Four Intel Xeon E7-4860 10-core 2.26 GHz processors
- eXFlash module with 16 x 200 GB SSDs
- 128 GB (32 x 4 GB) of Low Power ECC RDIMM memory
- Flexible “pay-as-you-grow” design
x3690 X5 Workload optimised System for Database
7147-D1x
- Two Intel Xeon E7-2860 10-core 2.26 GHz processors
- eXFlash module with 16 x 200 GB SSDs
- 64 GB (16 x 4 GB) of Low Power ECC RDIMM memory
- Flexible “pay-as-you-grow” design
7147-D2x
- Two Intel Xeon E7-2860 10-core 2.26 GHz processors
- eXFlash module with 16 x 200 GB SSDs
- One 320 GB High IOPS SSD PCIe adapter
- 64 GB (16 x 4 GB) of Low Power ECC RDIMM memory
- Flexible “pay-as-you-grow” design
HX5 Workload optimised System for Database
7873-G4x
- Two Intel Xeon E7-4830 8-core 2.13GHz processors
- One IBM BladeCenter PCI Express Gen 2 Expansion Blade
- Two 320GB High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters
- 64GB (8 x 8GB) of VLP Registered ECC DDR3 memory
- One Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced for IBM BladeCenter
- Flexible “pay-as-you-grow” design
7873-G2x
- Two Intel Xeon E7-4830 8-core 2.13GHz processors
- One IBM BladeCenter PCI Express Gen 2 Expansion Blade
- Two 320GB High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters
- 64GB (8 x 8GB) of VLP Registered ECC DDR3 memory
- One Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced for IBM BladeCenter
- Flexible “pay-as-you-grow” design
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