(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Broadening its family of x86 servers, IBM (www.ibm.com) has introduced four-socket IBM System x3755 M3 rack server, equipped with new AMD (www.amd.com) Opteron processors, as well as the Intel-powered (www.intel.com) two-socket System x3630 M3 rack server.
According to IBM’s Tuesday announcement, the new x3755 M3 is equipped with the latest AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors, enabling solid performance for clients that have outgrown their current two-socket IT infrastructure. CPU-intensive applications can benefit from the higher I/O throughput and large memory footprint (32 DIMM slots), leading to lower acquisition, networking and lifecycle costs, and its dense, 2U package helps limit data center sprawl.
“The addition of the System x3755 M3 to our portfolio is another example of our focus on client solutions,” IBM System x vice president Bob Galush said in a statement. “Clients that run heavily threaded workloads like Java, virtualization and transaction processing can increase their performance with a dense, cost-effective solution.”
The new IBM System x3755 M3 server provides up to four processors, 32 memory slots and 16TB of local storage in a 2U server, effectively increasing performance and capacity in the same footprint as today’s 2U, two-socket servers. With built-in reliability such as hot-swap power supplies, hot-swap fans, and hot-swap hard drives protected by RAID, clients will find the x3755 M3 a powerful and robust solution to meet the demands of their growing workloads.
“With the newest System x server, IBM has looked to their clients’ needs and selected an outstanding, energy-efficient processor architecture for compute-intensive applications,” said Patrick Patla, corporate vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Division, AMD. “Many of the barriers to 4P adoption have been eliminated with the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform, and IBM has further simplified 4P adoption in dense environments with the 2U design.”
The storage-rich System x3630 M3 rack server, also announced Tuesday, is equipped with the latest Intel Xeon 5600 Series processors, and is able to provide much as 28TB of internal storage. According to IBM, it balances cost and functionality for optimal internal storage density, and offers the lowest-cost-per-terabyte in the IBM System x portfolio.
The System x3630 M3 is designed for companies deploying workloads such as online gaming, video and photo sharing, imaging, blogging and transactional workloads.
