Power is performance redefined
The IT landscape is evolving rapidly and today IT performance means delivering services faster, with higher quality and with superior economics.
- The emerging measures of IT performance are around agility, helping the business capitalise faster on new opportunities.
- IT is measured on providing infrastructure to handle rapid growth and manage business risk while meeting higher service levels.
- And of course new services must be delivered within tighter budgets, with IT expected to do more with less.
Watson and Workload Optimised Systems
Watson’s success in the Jeopardy! challenge is inspiring a new era of optimised systems design. Based on commercially available IBM Power® 750 servers, Watson’s advances in deep analytics and its ability to process unstructured data and interpret natural language will now be tailored to fit the requirements of new solutions in science, healthcare, financial services and other industries. Download the whitepaper (US) and read more about Watson and workload optimised system design.
Deliver services with superior economics
Achieve superior economics for application server consolidation on Power blades and servers with new levels of scalability, energy and cost efficiency. The new 16-core IBM BladeCenter PS703 (US) and 32-core IBM BladeCenter PS704 (US) deliver over 60% greater performance and 2X the number of cores with the same density and energy use of the previous POWER7 blades.
The IBM Power 750 Express, the 4-socket server technology behind Watson, is now enhanced beyond other 32 core servers with more than 2.5 times the performance of Oracle’s SPARC T3-2 server, and more than 2 times better than HP Integrity BL890c i2.
Deliver new services faster
Dramatically reduce project concept to delivery time for the toughest challenges in science with the world’s most powerful and energy efficient Supercomputer. IBM plans1 to offer the new Power 775 Supercomputer (US) with POWER7® processor technology. The Power 775 shares Watson’s POWER7 DNA and is planned to accelerate high performance computing innovation in smarter computing projects such as climate prediction, medical and life sciences, financial services, petroleum reservoir modeling, and industrial design.
Deliver services with higher quality
Improve qualities of service via a unified, intuitive interface for physical and virtualized system resource management. The new IBM Systems Director Management Console appliance manages both Power servers & blades, extending the capabilities of today’s hardware management console (HMC).
Additional Power Systems related announcement
Three IBM BNT data center Ethernet switches are available for IBM POWER7 processor-based servers. They offer three great top-of-rack (TOR) alternatives for the access or distributed layer when laying out your IBM Power Systems data center switching environment. They are the IBM BNT RackSwitch G8124ER* (1455-24E), IBM BNT RackSwitch G8052R* (1455-48E), IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264R* (1455-64C).
1 Preview announcements provide insight into IBM plans and directions. General availability, prices, ordering information, and terms and conditions will be provided when the product is announced. IBM’s statements regarding its plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice at IBM’s sole discretion. Information regarding potential future products is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion. Some products in this preview may have significant lead times between order and delivery.
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