IBM Delivers Breakthrough “ENERGY-SMART”

IBM Delivers Breakthrough “ENERGY-SMART”

At a press conference today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it is extending its line of AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron processor-based servers in response to customer demand for greater choice in the rapidly expanding x86 segment, of which blade servers lead in the dramatic transformation of today’s datacenter. The new servers will deliver energy-smart business performance computing solutions that optimize power consumption at the chip, systems and software levels, and address clients’ growing appetite for more powerful yet energy-efficient computing resources.

The portfolio of five new IBM systems and blades introduced is based on the next generation of AMD Opteron processors and is targeted to business performance computing — a new compute model that leverages high performance computing capability to more effectively meet general business needs, such as business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and more.

The new systems join IBM’s current line of AMD Opteron processor-based systems targeted for high-performance computing, first introduced to the market by IBM in April 2003, and can deliver up to 21 percent greater performance within the same power envelope as previous generations. The new systems being introduced by IBM today have been optimized for business performance computing by leveraging IBM’s Enterprise X-Architecture innovation to bring mainframe-inspired capabilities and sophisticated high-end technology to the company’s x86 portfolio.

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