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IBM System x and BladeCenter Servers

IBM Intel® Xeon® processor-based rack, blade and iDataPlex data centre servers from System x and BladeCenter for Linux, Windows, VMware and Solaris operating systems offer - More processing power - More memory - Increased storage - Greater reliability.

IBM System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers offer an unbeatable combination of performance and value designed to give you the IT performance you need.

The business productivity suite of IBM x86 servers continues to grow to address your specific needs.

New additions include the value, storage-rich System x3620 M3, the extremely storage-dense System x3630 M3 and the 4-socket, AMD Opteron-equipped System x3755 M3.

The flagship System x servers, the x3650 M3 and x3550 M3 deliver energy-smart designs featuring low-wattage, energy-efficient power supplies, counter rotating fans, altimeters and advanced power management.

Integrating two Intel®Xeon®5600 series processors with QuickPath Interconnect,Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost technology, these servers dramatically improve performance compared to previous generation servers.

Tower servers

Ideal for smaller businesses, smaller remote environments and meeting standalone requirements. Ideal uses include your custom business applications, distributed branch applications, file sharing, email and collaboration, web services, departmental database, small-scale virtualization, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM).

IBM System x tower servers deliver extreme scalability of storage and memory while leveraging the high processing speed of the latest Intel® Xeon® processors for your critical business applications.

Processors: Six-core Intel® Xeon® up to two X5690 3.46 GHz or four-core Intel® Xeon® X5687 3.60 GHz with 12 MB of cache per processor socket
Maximum processors: 2
Maximum memory: Sixteen DIMM slots maximum, 192 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz RDIMMs or 48 GB with DDR-3 1333 MHz UDIMMs
Maximum hard drives: Twenty-four 2.5" or eight 3.5" (configure to order only)

Rack servers

Great for small to mid-range businesses, segmented workloads and "fit for purpose" applications.

With an efficient design for cost-effective computing, IBM x Series rack servers deliver up to 192 GB of memory and up to 16 TB of internal storage for your mission-critical applications.

Processors: Up to six-core Intel® Xeon® 5600 series
Maximum processors: 2
Rack height: 2U
Maximum hard drives: 16

Blade servers

Optimised for large consolidation environments, server and infrastructure replacement and remote environments. With IBM BladeCenter, blade servers and switch modules can be seamlessly moved between chassis, giving you incredibly flexible, mix-and-match deployment choices.

Top 5 reasons to choose IBM BladeCenter:

1. The widest choice of compatible chassis, blade servers, storage and networking offerings.
2. Rock-solid availability with multiple layers of redundancy.
3. End-to-end reliability and a commitment to best practices.
4. Excellent power efficiencies with pioneering cooling technologies.
5. Superior I/O performance and switches based on open technology.

BladeCenter chassis – Five choices, including chassis for data centers, stores or remote sites and non-traditional environments, so you can easily tailor a solution to meet your needs—just pick the right fit.

Blade servers

A choice of blade servers including those with Intel® Xeon® and IBM POWER® processors allow you to run diverse workloads within one blade architecture.

Intel processor-based blade servers:
Processor (Max): 2- and 4-socket, six-core, eight-core or ten-core Intel® Xeon®
Memory (Min/Max): Up to 256 GB per 2-socket HX5; scalable up to 640 GB using MAX5 expansion blade
Internal storage (Max): Up to 100 GB per 2-socket HX5 using solid-state drives; scalable to 200 GB per 4-socket HX5 (with 50 GB SSDs)
POWER processor-based and PowerXCell 8i processor-based blade servers are also available.

BladeCenter Open Fabric

An integrated server I/O portfolio based on open technology provides a comprehensive set of interconnects and smart management tools to help you run your business.

• Ethernet
• FCoE
• Fibre Channel
• InfiniBand
• SAS
• Virtual Fabric for IBM BladeCenter
• BladeCenter Open

Enterprise servers

High-end rack and blade servers suited for heavy vertical workloads, virtualization, and legacy system replacements.

High-performance, scalable rack and blade servers

IBM x86 enterprise servers represent the best of IBM X-Architecture® technology, leveraging decades of mainframe server design to deliver an open and affordable, industry-standard server platform that can help tackle your most demanding workloads.

Processor: Intel® Xeon® processor E7 product line up to 2.4 GHz (10-core)/1066 MHz memory access
Maximum processors: 4 processors, 40 cores per system
Maximum memory: 2 TB max PC3-10600 DDR3L, up to 3 TB with MAX5
Maximum internal storage: 4.8 TB HDD/3.2 TB SSD per system

Data Centre Solutions

IBM System x iDataPlex – Customise, optimise and right-size your large scale data centre

IBM System x™ iDataPlex™ is a large-scale solution that can help you face constraints in power, cooling or physical space. The innovative design of the iDataPlex solution integrates Intel® Xeon® processor-based processing into the node, rack and data centre for power and cooling efficiencies, and required compute density.

Highlights include:

• Flexible design for large-scale data centres
• Dramatically reduced cooling costs; air conditioning expense minimised or even eliminated
• Up to 5X compute density for efficient space utilisation
• Front access cabling
• Easy to service and manage

Specifications
Processor: Intel® Xeon® 5600 series up to 3.06 GHz (6-core) or 3.20 GHz (4-core)
Maximum processors: 2 CPU, 2 GPU adapters (optional)
Maximum memory: 16 DDR-3 DIMM slots, up to 192 GB per server
Maximum internal storage: Up to 10 TB per 2U Flex chassis and up to 24 TB per 3U storage chassis