IBM annonserer flere nye servere og produktoppgraderinger basert på POWER6-prosessoren, som er den raskeste mikroprosessoren på markedet. Nye produkter i Express-serien lanseres også, dette er produkter som er spesielt tilpasset små og mellomstore bedrifter.
Verdens mest populære mellomstore server, IBM Power 570, er nå mer energieffektiv, og gir flere konsolideringsmuligheter med nye kort som dobler antall prosessorer i samme maskin. Nye Power 570 kan kjøre totalt 32 prosessorer i ett system. Flere server-moduler kan legges til i fart når virksomheten vokser og trenger mer kapasitet.
IBM lanserer også Power 560 Express, som posisjonerer seg mellom Power 550 og Power 570. Maskinen er ideell for selskaper som ønsker å konsolidere flere UNIX-servere eller x86-systemer til en mindre maskin med høy ytelse, lavt strømforbruk og gunstig pris. IBMs portefølje av Express-produkter er grundig testet for å sikre at de er enkle å installere, og konkurransedyktig priset. Express-produktene er utviklet i samarbeid med forretningspartnere som kjenner de respektive markedene og industriene godt.
IBM lanserer i tillegg nye BladeCenter-servere, nye lagringstilbud og ny WebSphere-server for små og mellomstore bedrifter. Produktene er mer energieffektive enn tidligere løsninger, og reduserer kostnader knyttet til vedlikehold og administrasjon av IT-ressursene.
Her følger et sammendrag av de nye produktene fra IBM Express Advantage:
- IBM Power 560 Express – Med POWER6-prosessor, bedre virtualisering og større energieffektivitet til en gunstig pris
- IBM BladeCenter® LS22 Expressog IBM BladeCenter LS42 Express – med firekjerners AMD Opteron-prosessor og solid-state disker som er fire ganger mer pålitelige og bruker 87 prosent mindre energi enn tradisjonelle disker. IBM er eneste leverandør som tilbyr bladservere med solid state-disker.
- BladeCenter S Express – bransjens første servere med delt lagring for små virksomheter. BladeCenter S kan redusere antallet servere i små og mellomstore bedrifter med opptil 80 prosent (oppnås ved bruk av virtualiseringsteknologi).
- IBM System Storage TS2900 Tape Autoloader Express – med siste generasjon Linear Tape-Open Tape-disk med opptil 7,2 Terabyte kapasitet
- IBM System Storage 7214 Tape & DVD Enclosure Express – Lagrings- og arkivløsning for IBM Power Systems, kompakt løsning til god pris for mellomstore virksomheter
- WebSphere Application Server – Express V7 – “ut av boksen”-løsning for utvikling, kjøring og administrasjon av dynamiske nettsider og applikasjoner.
Les mer i vedlagte pressemeldinger.
IBM Doubles up on POWER6 Cores, Improves Energy Efficiency To Help Clients Manage IT Infrastructure
New Servers, Software Extend Lead on HP, Sun with Better Performance, Management, Availability, Virtualization
ARMONK, NY -- 7 Oct., 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM), the world's leader in UNIX® revenue share (1), today announced new POWER6™ processor-based enterprise and business-class servers and updated virtualization and systems management software designed to help clients improve performance, drive innovation and maximize return on their IT investments in the new enterprise data center.
The new offerings provide a clear alternative choice to HP, Sun and other competitive systems by helping customers consolidate their data centers or departmental workloads, increase operational efficiencies, and reduce energy costs.
More and more companies are choosing IBM Power SystemsTM servers to simplify their IT infrastructures. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), in 2Q08 IBM UNIX grew revenue 26% YTY, outpacing all others, outgrowing HP by 2 to 1 with Sun also in decline.(1) Clients are leveraging innovative IBM solutions, services, virtualization, and the technology that produced POWER6, the world's fastest microprocessor, to manage mission-critical applications -- from multiple servers in the large data center to standalone computers supporting the small business franchise.
For instance, the world’s most popular midrange server, the IBM PowerTM 570, now offers more energy efficiency and consolidation options with new processor cards that double the number of cores in the same system footprint. Starting at just 4 cores, the system can be upgraded to a full 32-core single system image (32-core SMP); and with hot-node add, businesses can install more server modules without having to take the system down when the time comes for growth.
This new 570/32 demonstrates more than twice the performance per core and more than twice the performance per watt as HP's Superdome. (2)
The Power 570/16, which supports from 2 to 16 POWER6 cores, now features faster speeds of 4.4 GHz and even 5.0 GHz -- the fastest of the POWER6 processors -- previously available only in the top of the line Power 595.
With twice the number of cores for performance and efficiency packed into the same system footprint as previous 570 systems, the Power 570/32 gives users more than 2.4 times the performance per watt compared to the Sun M8000 system. (3)
Helping Businesses Consolidate Workloads
The Power 560 Express, a commercial computer system, is a new POWER6 server model that sits between the Power 550 and Power 570. The Power 560 and features 4-, 8- and 16-core configurations and is designed to help businesses consolidate multiple UNIX, i or x86 workloads onto less footprints.
The Power 560 can save up companies up to $840,000 and 80-percent in energy by consolidating 13 Sun Fire V490 servers on a single Power 560 server with PowerVM, as compared to consolidating the same number on four Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers with dynamic system domains. (4)
The Power 560 Express provides an 80-percent performance boost and 37-percent performance per watt improvement compared to a 16-core HP Integrity rx7640. (5)
IBM today also announced:
- The Power 520 Express and Power 550 Express, providing new 4- and 8-core options for i editions. AIX® and Linux users can now add i on the same system. IBM has reduced the price of the Power 550 Express by up to 20 percent on selected configurations.
- The BladeCenter® H with JS12, offering extended SAN options and pre-installation for i clients.
- Enhanced RAS features for hot-node add and repair for Power 570 and Power 595 servers, allowing concurrent repair of one node while the system continues to operate, even while PowerHA is mirroring transactions across multiple systems and storage.
The new Power 570/32, 570/16, and 560, expanded capabilities of the Power 550 and 520 systems and the new SAN options on blades all run any combination of AIX, i, and Red Hat or Novell Linux.
Virtualization, Energy Management, and Availability Software
Enhanced Power Systems software for AIX, i and Linux, includes:
- A beta version of PowerVMTM Active Memory Sharing, new virtualization software that helps clients improve memory utilization by pooling resources between partitions.
- IBM Systems Director, a new foundation for enterprise platform management, spanning multiple platforms and operating environments. Systems Director helps clients deploy, monitor, analyze, optimize and update Power server and storage physical and virtual resources running any combination of AIX, i or Linux workloads. Systems Director is managed through an intuitive graphical interface and provides upward integration to enterprise service management tools, including IBM Tivoli.
- A new version of Active Energy Manager, an extension to IBM Systems Director, featuring advanced energy control options designed to boost performance per watt by slowing processor clock speed or even putting processors in “nap” mode when not in use. It also allows users to set an energy cap a for a single POWER6 server, or even across a pool of POWER6-based servers.
- PowerHATM for AIX, enhanced with asynchronous GLVM support that enables geographic dispersion of systems to improve business resiliency and disaster recovery.
- A new release of IBM iCluster, a high availability solution based on logical replication, that integrates with IBM i service and fix management tools.
- A a new distribution agreement with Vision Solutions for IBM to distribute Vision Cluster1™, Vision's flagship enterprise cluster management solution for IBM i.
- New and updated Rational development tools for the i operating environment that provide enablement for developer team collaboration.
In addition to IBM Systems Director, IBM recently introduced AIX Enterprise Edition to help UNIX clients discover applications and server relationships, monitor and report service status, manage workload partitions (WPARs), and enable cost analysis of server usage. Systems Director and AIX Enterprise Edition have been designed to provide a full platform management solution for UNIX servers, and to integrate with IBM Tivoli tools for enterprise service management.
"Today's broad set of announcements span performance, virtualization, energy efficiency, availability and management and demonstrate convincingly that IBM is clearly the smart choice for businesses looking to reduce total IT costs, including the often more expensive operational aspects," said Scott Handy, vice president of worldwide marketing and strategy, IBM Power Systems. "With new servers, aggressive price cuts and our systems software offerings moving higher up the customer value chain, we're increasing the pressure on HP and Sun.
"More importantly, we are offering customers more attractive total infrastructure solutions whether they are replacing one workload at a time in a department or are consolidating, simplifying and integrating their IT and moving to a shared infrastructure approach that supports tens or hundreds of applications from one or more groups of users or lines of business.”
Zappos.com Chooses IBM Power Systems
Zappos.com is an online retailer stocking more than one million pairs of shoes and handbags, with selections from more than 300 brand names. With a focus on service, the company has grown rapidly since its inception in 1999, with sales more than doubling year-over-year, every year since Zappos.com was founded.
From servers to storage, Zappos.com is a true blue customer. IBM Power 570 systems running Linux host the Zappos.com databases, providing the performance and capability required to meet the challenging daily demands of this successful Internet retailer. IBM BladeCenter, IBM System Storage™ and IBM WebSphere® technologies are also deployed by Zappos.com, working with business partner Sycomp.
Currently, the company is in the process of updating its disaster recovery site with IBM POWER6 microprocessors and plans to take advantage of IBM Live Partition Mobility continuous availability capabilities for new application development and testing.
"Our number one core value is to deliver 'wow' to our customers, and we've been committed to outstanding service for Zappos online buyers since day one," said Kris Ongbongan, systems manager at Zappos.com. "We evaluated a variety of vendor solutions, including HP and Sun, and determined that the IBM solution was the right one for us. IBM Power Systems have enabled the infrastructure to grow with our business. and have far exceeded our expectations on every front."
Winning UNIX Revenue Share
As industry studies demonstrate, IBM continues to lengthen its lead in revenue share for UNIX and RISC + Itanium (R+I) servers. According to IDC, IBM gained 5.1 points of revenue share with 26% growth YTY in 2Q08 for UNIX servers, and holds the #1 position with 35.7% revenue share, +4.6 points ahead of #2 Sun and nearly 10 points (9.9) ahead of HP. (1) In fact, IBM is the only major UNIX vendor to gain revenue share in the past five years, picking up points while both HP and Sun lost share. (6) IBM's #1 position is even stronger in the 20 designated growth segments. (7)
And in the R+I server space, which features IBM Power Systems servers running on AIX, Linux and i, IBM continues to gain revenue share at the expense of HP and Sun. (8)
Through its Power Systems Migration Factory offering, IBM has helped nearly 1,200 customers migrate from competitive Sun, HP and other platforms to IBM's AIX or Linux on Power, resulting in more than $1 billion in revenues. (9)
IBM has demonstrated that robust and mature technologies such as virtualization have become a key factor in the customer-buying decision. IBM recently reported that a threefold increase in customer adoption of virtualization (10) on its unified Power Systems line of servers is being fueled by customers consolidating additional partitions onto existing servers. This significant leap in the uptake of virtualization -- 64 percent in the second quarter alone -- exceeds by a large margin levels common on x86 systems. (11)
Overall, IBM Power Systems with POWER6 technology have recorded more than 70 industry-leading performance benchmarks. For more details, please visit www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/benchmarks (US).
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(1) IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, August 2008.
(2) SPEC® is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results based on SPECint_rate2006 as of October 2, 2008 and published on www.spec.org. Power 570 results to be submitted on October 7, 2008. System data for HP is from the "QuickSpecs HP Integrity Superdome Servers 16-processor, 32-processor, and 64-processor Systems" available at h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/Division/Division.html#11715 as of October 2, 2008. Systems were compared based on maximum processor configuration because that is the data point for which power requirements are defined. Other configurations could have different performance per watt metrics. IBM Power 570 results are for a system with 16 chips, 32 cores and two threads per core with a SPECint_rate2006 result of 832. The recommended maximum power usage for site planning is 5,600 watts. HP Integrity Superdome results are for a system with 32 chips, 64 cores and 1 thread per core with a SPECint_rate2006 result of 824. The recommended power usage for site planning is 12,196 watts. Performance per watt is calculated by dividing the performance by the maximum system power.
(3) SPEC® is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results based on SPECint_rate2006 as of October 2, 2008 and published on www.spec.org. Power 570 results to be submitted on October 7, 2008. System data for Sun is from the "Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server Site Planning Guide" available at docs.sun.com/source/819-4203-12/21ch3p.html as of October 2, 2008. Systems were compared based on maximum processor configuration because that is the data point for which power requirements are defined. Other configurations could have different performance per watt metrics. IBM Power 570 results are for a system with 16 chips, 32 cores and two threads per core with a SPECint_rate2006 result of 832. The recommended maximum power usage for site planning is 5,600 watts. Sun Microsystems Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 results are for a system with 16 chips, 64 cores and 2 threads per core with a SPECint_rate2006 result of 637. The recommended power usage for site planning is 10,500 watts. Performance per watt is calculated by dividing the performance by the maximum system power.
(4) SPEC® and the benchmark names SPECrate®, SPECint®, and SPECjbb® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The SPECint_rate2006 results can be found at www.spec.org. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of October 2, 2008. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing 8-chip servers currently shipping by IBM and Sun respectively. SPECint_rate2006 results are: IBM Power 560 Express with 8 chips and 16 cores and two threads per core with a result of 363 peak. Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 with 8 chips and 32 cores and 2 threads per core with a result of 264 peak.
Power 560 Express Pricing: $140,955
Power 560 Express Server, Includes 16 Core 3.6 GHz POWER6 Processors 64GB System Memory, 4 x 146 GB SAS Disk Drives, 1 DVD-ROM, 2 Gb Ethernet Ports, and 4 Power Supplies (220 V with N+N Redundancy)
Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 pricing: $181,340 + $64,000 (64GB of memory) = $245,340 times 4 servers = $981,360
Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server, Includes 8 Quad-Core 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VII Processors, 4 CPU Board with 2 CPUs each 5 MB On Chip L2 Cache, and 64 GB System Memory (4 Memory Modules with 8 x 2 GB DDR2 DIMMs), 4 x 146 GB SAS Disk Drives, 1 DVD-ROM, 4 Gb Ethernet Ports, 2 I/O Trays with 4 PCI-e and 1 PCI-X Slots, 4 Power Supplies (110 V or 220 V with N+N Redundancy), RoHS-5 Compliant plus Quantity 4 SELX2B1Z $ 16,000.00 - Sun SPARC Enterprise Server Memory Module, 8 x 2 GB DIMMs, 16 GB total memory, for SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 servers, RoHS-5 Compliant
Power Consumption: This information for the Power 560 is in "Model 8234-EMA server specifications" available at www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss - search for Power 560. The power for the Power 560 is 2,800 WATTs. The information for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server is in the "Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Servers Site Planning Guide" available at docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/m5000-hw. The power requirement for the M5000 is 3,738 WATTS. Four M5000 servers times 3,738 watts equals 14,952. 81% more power than one Power 560 at 2,800 Watts.
(5) SPEC® and the benchmark names SPECrate®, SPECint®, and SPECjbb® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The SPECint_rate2006 results can be found at www.spec.org. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of October 2, 2008. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing 8-chip servers currently shipping by IBM and HP respectively.
SPECint_rate2006 peak results are: IBM Power 560 Express with 8 chips and 16 cores and two threads per core with a projected result of 363. HP Integrity rx7640 with 8 chips and 16 cores and 2 threads per core with a result of 201. Performance per watt is calculated by dividing the performance by the recommended maximum power for site planning. Actual power used by the systems will be less than this value for all of the systems. The information for the Power 560 is in "Model 8234-EMA server specifications" available at www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss - search for Power 560. The power for the Power 560 is 2,800 WATTs. The power requirement for the HP integrity rx7640 is 2128 watts and specifications are available at h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12470_div/12470_div.PDF. Hence, the performance per watt for the Power 560 Express is 129.6 and the performance per watt of the HP Integrity rx7640 is 94.5.
(6) IBM is the only major vendor to gain revenue share in the UNIX segment for the past five years (+11.2 points) while both Sun (-1.9 points) and HP (-5.7 points) lost share. (Source: IDC)
(7) IBM's #1 UNIX position is stronger in the 20 growth markets (40% share for R4Q 2Q08 vs. 35% for the G7 countries). The BRIC subset is even higher at 43%. (Source: IDC)
(8) In the R + I server space, IBM has gained 4.8 points of share in this space in the past five years on a rolling, four quarter basis, while HP has lost -3.1 points and Sun -2.7 points. In the past five years, IBM has achieved 17% revenue growth, while HP and Sun have each declined 8%. (Source: IDC)
(9) Source: IBM internal numbers.
(10) Worldwide IBM data from online configurators used by IBM sales personnel, customer and business partners to order Power Systems. 2Q 2008 data includes all unified Power systems (POWER6-based). 2Q 2007 data includes POWER5-based System p.
(11) IBM calculation divided the 150,000 new x86 servers shipped with virtualization sourced from Gartner Group presentation, "Server Virtualization for x86: Trends, Best Practices and Future", Page 5 delivered at Gartner Infrastructure Operations & Management Summit by Thomas Bittman, June 23-25, 2008 by 8,841,052 total x86 server units shipped in 2007 sourced from Gartner Quarterly Statistics, July 2008. Virtualization attach rate for x86 in 2007 = 150,000 / 8,841,052 = 1.69663% = 1.7 percent.
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New IT Optimization Offerings from IBM Reduce Cost and Complexity for Midsize Companies
ARMONK, NY – 7 October 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM (US)) today announced new BladeCenter servers and System Storage offerings designed to help midsize businesses simplify and automate the management of information technology resources, applications, processes and services.
IBM is also introducing a new version of WebSphere’s industry leading application server that will help midsize businesses reduce both cost and IT complexity, while enhancing the speed of customer response time on the Web. The new version will also provide a highly scaleable and reliable platform for midsize businesses to collaborate and securely exchange data.
These Express Advantage IT optimization solutions are built on an open architecture to optimize computing resources and feature advanced virtualization capabilities in addition to dynamic capabilities that reduce the number of hardware components and software resources. This allows midsize companies to free up floor space, save energy and simplify administrative tasks. The new offerings are the latest addition to the Express Advantage portfolio, reflecting IBM's ongoing commitment to help midsize businesses find new and affordable ways to apply technology for greater value.
According to the IBM Global 2008 CEO Study (US), more than one third of all CEO’s from midsize companies identified the innovative use of information technology as a key factor affecting their ability to respond to rapidly changing business conditions.
“Implementation speed, adding new capabilities and reducing complexity are all critically important to helping our clients grow,” said Mark Wyllie, chief operating officer of Compuquip Technologies, Inc. “Through our partnership with IBM, we have seen over and over again the value of server and storage virtualization as well as a more flexible software infrastructure. The benefits are increased productivity and return on investment resulting from the elimination of strains on time and resources.”
IBM Express Advantage is a comprehensive portfolio of offerings that has been rigorously tested to ensure that offerings are easy to buy and deploy and are competitively priced. They are developed in conjunction with a network of IBM-certified Business Partners who know their clients’ industry and marketplace. IBM Express Advantage offers enhanced capabilities to help midsize customers navigate the breadth of IBM to find the right IBM and IBM Business Partner resources.
“IBM’s new IT optimization solutions give midsize companies maximum performance and efficiency at an affordable price, offering a robust infrastructure platform that can quickly and easily accommodate growth," said Marc Dupaquier, general manager, IBM Global Midmarket. "We're committed to helping our midsize customers succeed in today's highly competitive global economy with innovative business and technology solutions built uniquely for their needs."
Optimizing IT to gain efficiency and competitiveness
The new IBM Express Advantage offerings include:
IBM Power 560 Express
The IBM Power 560 Express (US) combines IBM's industry-leading POWER6™ processor technology with enhanced virtualization and energy efficiency, offering outstanding price/performance and value for midsize organizations that want to be responsive to changing business needs and realize significant benefits for their application and database servers. With the new Power 560 Express clients can save up to 80 percent of the energy by consolidating 13 Sun Fire V490 servers on a single Power 560 server with PowerVM compared to consolidating those same servers on four Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers with Dynamic System Domains.
IBM BladeCenter® LS22 Express and IBM BladeCenter LS42 Express
IBM BladeCenter LS22 (US) and LS42 (US) blade servers feature the latest quad-core AMD Opteron™ processors and are available with solid-state drives, which are 4 times more reliable than traditional drives and use 87 percent less power -- saving 20 watts per blade. IBM offers the only blade servers with solid state drives.
The LS22 blade server is faster than competitive two socket blade servers and is ideal for companies like financial services firms, universities and research labs, and oil and gas companies that run high-performance applications.
The LS42 blade server consumes up to 13 percent less power than comparable blade offerings. It also provides 20 percent faster memory, so is well suited to run memory-intensive applications like those for virtualization and database.
With the new 2+2 program IBM is announcing today, clients can start with two-sockets on the LS42 server and expand to a four-socket server as their business needs demand. This allows growing companies to only pay for the capacity they need, giving them the flexibility to grow into their blades and protect their investments.
BladeCenter S Express
IBM BladeCenter S (US) for smaller firms is now available with industry-first shared storage, bringing enterprise-class storage capabilities to smaller firms and branch offices that lack the IT staff and budgets to manage expanding volumes of business information. With this innovative new approach, IBM is cutting the cost of shared storage technology by 30-40 percent and -- supported by new, complementary features like Start Now Advisor and BladeCenter Service Advisor – making it easier to set up and own (1).
BladeCenter S is specially designed to help and small and medium-sized firms simplify the management of technology needed to run a business -- from servers, to phone systems and business applications. BladeCenter S can help reduce the 25 to 45 servers used by an average mid-size company by up to 80 percent (2).
IBM System Storage TS2900 Tape Autoloader Express
The IBM System Storage TS2900 Tape Autoloader Express (US) offers growing companies IBM’s latest generation Linear Tape-Open Tape™ (LTO™) tape drive featuring up to 7.2TB of capacity. For midsize company owners and IT managers who need increased capacity and data encryption for the midrange open-systems environment, this offering provides entry-level automated backup for rack systems with low-profile, high density storage capacity. This offering incorporates IBM’s new patented High Density slot technology and can be operated remotely via an easy to use Web interface.
IBM System Storage 7214 Tape & DVD Enclosure Express
The IBM System Storage 7214 Tape & DVD Enclosure Express (US) is a low-cost storage and archival solution for IBM Power Systems that offers midsize companies higher performance in the most compact and affordable packaging possible. The 7214 storage enclosure provides faster data transfer rates compared to existing SCSI devices through its SAS Electronic Interface, and gives companies the choice of several drive technologies, including DAT, LTO and DVD drives. Its low-profile design enables it to be installed in one EIA unit (1U) of a standard 19-inch server rack.
WebSphere Application Server – Express V7
In today’s business environment, midmarket companies require faster response from their IT infrastructure to enable them to address changing market opportunity. In addition, they continue to look for ways to reduce IT complexity for better security & management as well as reuse.
WebSphere Application Server - Express V7 (US) is an affordable, ready-to-go solution for developing, running and managing dynamic Web sites and applications. The solution offers a rich application deployment environment with capabilities for transaction management, security and scalability, for thousands of applications.
New performance enhancements to this solution deliver data center efficiency via the ability to consolidate workloads enabling a smaller footprint, less energy and less cost. New flexible management features also improve efficiencies of administration and allows remote production resource management of WebSphere Application Server – Express V7.
The solution delivers simplified programming models for building reusable persistent objects through single-step installation and configuration, wizards and default configurations. It also offers easy to navigate documentation that includes extensive use of sample code help ensure fast and smooth start-up New Java EE 5 certification, EJB 3.0 support and Java Persistence API (JPA) and Java Development Kit (JDK) 6.0.
Availability:
- The 2+2 program will be available to LS42 customers in November. IBM BladeCenter S with shared storage will begin shipping in volume later this month.
- WebSphere Application Server – Express V7, IBM Power 560 Express, IBM BladeCenter® LS22 Express, IBM BladeCenter LS42 Express, BladeCenter S Express, IBM System Storage TS2900 Tape Autoloader Express, IBM System Storage 7214 Tape & DVD Enclosure Express are available now.
For more information about Express Advantage and the new Express Advantage offerings, visit www.ibm.com/expressadvantage (US).
- When compared with a comparable Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Network.
- Server reduction achieved through the use of virtualization inside BladeCenter.
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