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IBM hardware offers grunt to carry new and heavy loads
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By Robert Clark | Feb 11, 2010
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IBM has unveiled new hardware with the grunt to help customers carry out new and demanding computing operations such as smart grid management or real-time financial analytics.
The new Power7 systems are intended to enable customers to manage these complex applications and services by using new virtualization technology, to cut energy costs and make more cost-efficient use of memory, IBM said.
It is intended for new apps and services “that rely on processing an enormous number of concurrent transactions and data while analyzing that information in real time,” IBM said.
The new server range can manage millions of transactions in real time and analyze massive volumes of associated data.
For example, a smart electrical grid needs to be able to calculate in real-time where electricity is needed most while helping customers monitor their energy consumption. According to IBM, one US utility setting up a smart grid pilot is moving from processing less than 1 million meter reads per day to more than 85 million.
It says Power7 can deliver four times the performance and four times the virtualization capability for the same price -- and are three to four times more energy efficient.
Forrester Research analyst Brad Day says the strength of the Power7 will be its ability to deliver both high and low-end computing performance.
It was the first time IBM had designed a system “that's equally competitive in all these different workloads,” he told Forbes.com. “I'd say they're 18 to 24 months ahead of their competition.”
