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Breaking News -
Platforms:
New IBM, Intel-Based Server
Provides Customers With Choice
IBM announced a new Intel-based server and released the results of crucial
benchmarks that solidify IBM's leadership in providing value and choice to
customers in the high-end, Intel-processor-based server market. The new IBM
eServer xSeries 455 offers customers the capability to run
transaction-intensive workloads with Intel-processor-based, 64-bit
performance.
The IBM eServer xSeries 455 is based on industry-leading Enterprise
X-Architecture (EXA), the IBM technology that helps enable
Intel-processor-based servers to scale to new levels with mainframe-inspired
technologies. IBM is the first major server vendor to manufacture a system
that scales from 4-way Intel Itanium 2 processors to 8-way, on up to 16-way by
adding affordable building blocks of 4-way nodes. Those building blocks of
4-way nodes include processors, I/O expansion and up to 56GB of memory to help
maintain a balanced system. In this way, the eServer x455 can double or
quadruple processing capacity, allowing customers to easily increase capacity
within the 64-bit environment as business demands require.
"Today's expansion of IBM's eServer line exemplifies our commitment to
customer choice and to delivering server technology matched to customers'
critical business needs," said Doug Oathout, director of IBM eServer xSeries
Products. "Our 'pay-as-you-grow' model for server scalability is perfectly
aligned with the customer mandate to do more with less as they optimize and
consolidate their server infrastructures. The x455 is the right choice for IT
administrators seeking a reliable solution when performance levels are
variable or unknown, helping prevent costly mistakes and protecting
investments."
The eServer x455 leverages all features associated with the proven Intel
Xeon
processor-MP-based eServer x440, including IBM's EXA, rack-dense packaging and
storage drives. The system also adds the benefit of 64-bit data addressing for
transaction-intensive database and enterprise resource planning (ERP)
application workloads. The eServer x455 complements existing Microsoft Windows
and Linux server environments with top performance in a small, scalable
package.
"IBM continues to deliver enterprise-level performance and reliability
using
its eServer technology built upon Intel Xeon processors MP and Intel Itanium 2
processors," said Richard Dracott, general manager of Enterprise Marketing &
Planning at Intel Corporation. "The new xSeries 455 and the Enterprise
X-Architecture technology will help accelerate the adoption of Intel Itanium
2-based servers for Windows and Linux environments."
Benchmark Leadership From IBM
IBM reinforces its leadership in the high-end, Intel-processor-based server
market with new results on leading industry-standard benchmarks:
- The fastest 4-way performance for an Intel Xeon processor-MP-based server
on the TPC-C online transaction processing benchmark. The eServer x445
performance result is 7 percent higher than results posted by HP and
Dell.
- The best 16-way SAP Standard Application SD two-tier result on Microsoft
Windows, running SAP Standard Application Sales and Distribution (SD)
Benchmark, using SAP R/3 Enterprise Release 4.70.
- Strong performance for a 4-way Intel Itanium 2 processor-based server on
the two-tier SAP SD Benchmark, SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.70.
Additional Product Features For The IBM eServer x445
IBM also announced a new option kit for the eServer x445 that upgrades its
remote management capabilities. The Remote Supervisor Adapter II now supports
servers based on the IBM XA-32 chip set architecture, delivering up to five
times the graphics redirection capabilities of the first-generation offering
and allowing remote control from any standard Web browser. The faster
performance, virtual CD and virtual floppy disk-drive capabilities mean
systems administrators can truly run "lights out" data centers, managing their
servers through local graphics consoles and storage devices.
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