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IBM Puts Power5 In Low-cost Unix Server
News IBM on Tuesday announced its least expensive Unix server to date with its new Power5 processor, the p5-510. Both server lines are part of Big Blue's effort to spread its Power processors as widely as possible.
[February 9, 2005, 8:40]
IBM EServer P5 570 Server Consolidation Using POWER5 Virtualization
White Papers This white paper describes how Micro-Partitioning can be employed on IBM e server p5 570 systems for server consolidation. Increasing emphasis on the cost of delivering IT services has unleashed an unprecedented interest in server consolidation.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
IBM System P5 570 Server Consolidation Using POWER5 Virtualization
White Papers This white paper describes how Micro-Partitioning can be employed on IBM System p5 570 servers for server consolidation. This allows the relatively simple leverage of Micro-Partitioning in server consolidation environments.
[February 9, 2007, 0:00]
IBM EServer P5 570 Server Consolidation Using POWER5 Virtualization White Paper
White Papers This white paper describes how Micro-Partitioning can be employed on IBM eserver p5 570 systems for server consolidation. Micro-Partitioning is the latest in a set of evolutionary steps in server virtualization for eserver p5 servers.
[September 8, 2004, 3:00]
Benchmark Three-in-One IBM EServer I5 - I Nuovi Server Con Processori IBM POWER5 Forniscono Alle Piccole E Medie Imprese Elevate Prestazioni E Massima FlessibilitÃ
White Papers Nonostante molti benchmark forniscano preziose informazioni su piattaforme server impostate per eseguire un'unica applicazione, pochissimi benchmark rappresentano in maniera accurata gli effettivi ambienti IT delle piccole e medie imprese.
[February 21, 2007, 9:56]
IBM 'Squadron' Ready For Action
News IBM has powered up a prototype of "Squadron" its coming high-end Unix server with 64 Power5 processors, an important step in Big Blue's plans to unify its four server lines. The fastest server in Big Blue's pSeries line, the p690, uses a 1.3GHz...
[March 19, 2003, 8:04]
IBM Server Speeds Past Rivals
News IBM's new top-end Power5-based Unix server has a commanding lead in a performance test of servers running a large database. The server became widely available on Thursday. The score topped two previous records: the fastest cluster, held by Hewlett...
[November 19, 2004, 7:45]
IBM's Power5+ Chip Boosts Top-end Unix Servers
News IBM has brought the Power5+ processor to its top-end Unix servers, completing the transition and boosting performance during a period of rapid change in the server market. The upgrade wrings about 30 percent more performance out of a system than...
[July 25, 2006, 10:30]
IBM Plots New Power Server Chips
News IBM will disclose details on Friday of its future server chips, the most important piece of hardware in Big Blue's years-long battle to dethrone Sun Microsystems from the top of the $21bn Unix server market.
[April 26, 2002, 9:06]
Power5 To Add Brawn To Servers
News Getting a system to run is a key milestone for the company's future plans to pressure Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard in the Unix server market. IBM's Power5 processor is the single most important component in IBM's years-long struggle to...
[February 18, 2003, 9:21]
IBM Plans Top-end 'Armada' Unix Server
News IBM plans to release a new top-end Unix server in 2004, a 64-processor machine code-named Armada that will feature the company's coming Power5 processor, a senior Big Blue executive has confirmed. Armada, the successor to the 32-processor p690...
[February 10, 2003, 11:55]
Big Blue Finishes Power5 Line
News Those two machines, which also include the Power5 -- IBM's latest high-end server processor that packs two processor cores into one chip -- came out in May. IBM says that its most basic i5 550 server configuration, which costs about $74,000 (£40...
[August 17, 2004, 9:15]
IBM Readies Retail Supercomputer
News IBM plans to begin selling on 18 February a powerful but power-hungry server specialised for supercomputing tasks, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. One of IBM's top server priorities today is high-performance technical computing.
[February 11, 2005, 8:00]
Big Blue To Let Squadron Fly At Sun And HP
News The current and new models feature "virtualisation" technology that lets a single server, or even a single processor, run multiple operating systems. IBM admits to having been caught flat-footed by the boom in Unix server sales that chiefly...
[October 15, 2004, 9:20]
IBM Conserves Power With New Chip
News The Power processor family is the heart of IBM's sustained -- and so far, successful -- effort to gain ground in the Unix server market on No. IBM plans to release the Power5 chip in a 64-processor server code-named Squadron.
[October 15, 2003, 8:40]
IBM Set To Release Linux-only Power Server
News In an effort to vault its Power processors into more widespread use, IBM plans to announce Monday a new, inexpensive server line called OpenPower that can run just the Linux operating system, CNET News.com has learned.
[September 10, 2004, 13:55]
IBM Seeks To Make Virtualisation 'ubiquitous'
News Partitioning is available today only on servers using IBM's higher-end Power4 and Power5 processors and in competing server designs from Sun, HP and Intel. A key ally in the Power effort is Apple, which uses the PowerPC 970FX in its desktop and...
[December 22, 2004, 8:30]
IBM Prepares Second Phase Of Power5
News Big Blue has long run in third place in the fiercely competitive Unix server market, trailing leader Sun Microsystems and second-place Hewlett-Packard. IBM is converging two server lines, the pSeries models that run IBM's AIX version of Unix and...
[July 5, 2004, 9:20]
IBM Muddies Dual-core Pricing Waters
News The same week that Intel and AMD introduced dual-core processors, IBM said that it will price its server software as if these x86 dual-core chips were a single processor. Until now, IBM has said that a dual-core processor would count as two CPUs...
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
Big Blue Remains Top Of The Server Heap
News IBM continued to march ahead of rivals in 2004 in server sales, a key market in the computing industry, making gains in models using x86 chips and the Unix operating system. Big Blue's server revenue increased 9.3 percent to $16.1bn from 2003 to...
[February 24, 2005, 8:20]
