Power servers

Why Power Systems

Power Systems hardware provides the foundation for designing workload optimised systems in conjunction with software and expert domain knowledge. Power servers and blades are modular and scalable and designed from the chip through the software stack to help deliver new levels of business performance.


Workload simulator tool

Model your data centre on Power and redefine your business performance

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PowerVM™

PowerVM takes on VMware

Edison Group - PowerVM up to 525% better performance

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Putting Watson to work

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Applying POWER7 optimised systems to your business insights

IBM PowerLinux

Linux. 

Industry standard Linux, solutions tuned to the task

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  • Blades (US)

    Delivering on the promise for a highly dynamic infrastructure, the BladeCenter PS blades help in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple to manage highly efficient way.

  • Express

    Power Express servers are excellent as reliable, secure distributed application servers, consolidation servers, or standalone servers for UNIX, IBM i and Linux workloads. As 2U, 4U or tower packages with 4-32 cores, Power Express servers provide outstanding performance while helping to reduce infrastructure and energy costs.

  • Enterprise

    Power Enterprise servers are for clients that require the ultimate in business resiliency, performance and scalability. This class of system, capable of running AIX, IBM i and Linux, provides up to 256 POWER7 processor cores with up to 8TBs of memory and includes the flexibility to turn processors and memory on and off as application workload dictates.

  • PowerLinux

    World-class POWER7 systems equipped with two sockets and up to 16 cores. These value-priced servers are designed to go head-to-head with x86 servers on cost, while delivering greater performance, higher utilisation, and superior availability.

  • High performance computing (US)

    Power Systems high performance computing solutions configured into highly scalable AIX® and Linux® clusters offer extreme performance for demanding analytic and big data workloads such as computational chemistry, petroleum reservoir modeling, weather forecasting, climate modeling, and financial services.

  • IBM Flex System

    IBM Flex System™ provides compute, storage and networking resources in one environment that is both efficient and easy to manage. IBM Flex System components provide an open ecosystem of advanced networking, storage, and virtualisation technologies with flexibility for a variety of workloads.



     

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Blades (US)

Express

Enterprise

PowerLinux

High performance computing (US)

IBM Flex System (US)

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Advantages

Companies embracing Smarter Computing are implementing IT infrastructure based on the IBM Power Systems platform that is designed for data, tuned to the task and managed with cloud technologies. With Power Systems, businesses can outpace their competitors by delivering services faster, differentiate their offerings by delivering higher quality services, and turn operational cost into investment opportunity by delivering services with superior economics.

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Hardware

Power Systems hardware provides the foundation for designing workload optimised systems in conjunction with software and expert domain knowledge. Power servers and blades are modular and scalable and designed from the chip through the software stack to help deliver new levels of business performance.

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Operating systems

Power servers deliver flexibility and choice of operating systems to enable your business to select the best applications for your business needs. Whether running 1, 2, or all 3 - coupled with PowerVM, they maximise the benefit of Power Systems in your business.

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System software

IBM's integrated approach to developing Systems and Systems Software stacks together delivers maximum utilisation, availability, and flexibility helping you deliver new advantages in your business.

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Solutions

IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions exploit key benefits in Power Systems that help you deliver new capabilities and new competitive advantages to your business.

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Migrate to Power

Over the last five years thousands of Oracle and HP UNIX clients have migrated to POWER. Learn how Power Systems has helped them improve their business performance, reduce risk, and establish a more secure future.

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