eX5 Generation Servers IT Innovation
With much broader functions and flexible workload optimization models, IBM’s fifth generation eX5 servers surpass technical barriers in providing computing capabilities based on the x86 platform. It is just one of IBM latest recently launched product lines. IBM expects these new systems will help raise the company’s market share.
IBM engineers have raised the x86 generation server capabilities through new technical creations – the decoupling of memory from the chip, enabling IT managers to scale the memory in their data centers without having to buy entire new servers. The new systems will increase memory scalability by 600 percent and cut in half the number of servers needed for given workloads.
Currently, the average data volume processed through web-use (online marketing, customer service, etc.) doubles annually. It leads to increased costs and depletes resources. To relieve data overloads, users often act in a traditional way that is allowed by current server platforms – installing new servers with escalating sourcing and management costs. Traditional x86 servers often use just 10 percent of their capacity due to the restrictions of the 30-year plus architecture, that is the chip and the memory are tightly tied.
The chief information officer (CIO) of Acxiom Corp, a leading supplier of interactive marketing services and one of the first businesses using eX5 systems, David Guzman, said “IBM’s eX5 systems are a breakthrough in the industry. Our business could double the virtualization capacity while lowering the software license expense. The cost/efficiency index is also quite attractive as it helps raise efficiency by five times at lower costs. The eX5 systems have a positive impact on other factors that form IT costs such as area, sourcing, manpower and maintenance. Generally, what the new server generation offers is a really significant breakthrough.”
eX5 systems make use of IBM’s integrated middle software packages to create highly virtualized environments, enabling users to cut in half the number of servers, lower the storage cost by 97 percent and license costs by 50 percent.
With its independent expandable memory technology – the MAX5 – the new server generation increases memory scalability by 600 percent compared to the systems currently available in the market. The new technology enables customers to run 82 percent more virtualized servers with the same license fee while noticeably slashing middle software license expenses and applications. The IBM unique silicon technology allows eX5 processor chips to quickly access expandable memory. IBM X-Architecture chips are developed based on IBM’s wealth of experiences through decades in integrating super-micro electronic elements to create optimal chip solutions.
Alongside MAX5, other IBM eX5 systems also benefit from integrated breakthrough creations to enable users to boost efficiency, save costs and enhance flexibility for x86 server workloads. Accordingly, eXFlash is a new unique generation storage technology to replace older models with lower fidelity and it helps slash 97 percent of expenses as it replaces hundreds of hardware and thousands of wires and cables. FlexNode allows division of a system into two separate systems and merged again, enabling users to run interactive applications in daytime and process data in big lots at night in the same system with a view to maximizing the server capacity.
To uphold the new eX5 technology, IBM has improved the systems director, a management tool set, to help users pre-determine server configurations, make remote re-determination of the system configurations, procure updates and restore them automatically. IBM also attempts to provide Lad Services, a new kind of service to help users simplify data transmission into eX5 systems and optimize the efficiency of virtualization and database.
In 2010, IBM seeks to make public three ex5 systems with much broader capabilities: the version using four CPUx3850 X5, BladeCenter HX5 servers and x3690 X5 system, a low-cost server that could effectively support enterprise activities (especially it can turn into the strongest two-CPU server in the market).
Tags: IBM Vietnam, Vietnam Information technology, Vietnam IT
Posted by VBN on Mar 15 2010. Filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
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