INDUSTRY

Keeping the heat on server rivals like Hewlett Packard, IBM today is introducing new UNIX Server solutions that provide uncompromising value and further increase performance, functionality and systems management capabilities for businesses seeking on-demand functionality. * More power to the entry class IBM pSeries 615 A new two-way p615 entry server with a 1.45 GHz POWER4+ processor, available in Express Configuration formats. To reduce complexity while increasing flexibility, the p615 comes in AIX 5L and Linux-Ready Express Configurations that can streamline the order process and reduce costs. Using the fastest available SCSI interface, maximum I/O data transfer rates of p615 servers have been doubled to 320 MBps, helping to improve performance for data-intensive applications. The IBM pSeries entry-class portfolio continues to push the limits in capability and cost effectiveness. * On demand disaster recovery with pSeries Capacity BackUp Systems Customers have access to an on demand Capacity BackUp (CBU) solution for the high end 16-way p670 and 32-way p690 servers to address incremental capacity requirements as a result of lost or limited capacity elsewhere in the enterprise. Now customers can address disaster recovery, without system interruption, at a significant cost savings compared to traditional backup server solutions. The pSeries CBU offerings for the p670 and p690 servers are specially priced and implemented with Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) technology. CUoD allows instant activation of dormant processors and the ability to test dormant processors on a regular basis; no monitoring or reporting is required. * IBM pSeries High Performance Switch (HPS) The pSeries HPS provides greater communication bandwidth and lower latency for IBM p655 and p690 servers in the eServer Cluster 1600 environment. HPS supports up to 16 p690 or p655 servers, and will support up to 64 p690 or p655 servers in mid 2004. The HPS is a cluster interconnect designed to support the most computationally and memory-bandwidth intensive applications in science and engineering, including weather and climate modeling, high-end quantum physics, computational chemistry, crash analysis and reservoir modeling. It will help customers solve larger problems faster and increase the accuracy of their most demanding computational models. * Cluster Systems Management Software IBM Cluster Systems Management (CSM) software for installing, operating and maintaining server clusters, is now available for three platforms - AIX 5L on pSeries, Linux on pSeries, and Linux on xSeries. CSM provides remote hardware control, utilities for administering software updates across all servers in the cluster, cluster-wide resource monitoring tools and automatic triggers that can be used to alert system managers or initiate corrective actions when problems occur. * Ultra320 SCSI Support Ultra320 SCSI adapters, disk drives, disk backplane support and external storage subsystems are now available for pSeries servers. Ultra320 SCSI, the latest industry-standard storage interface technology, transfers data using the SCSI protocol over a 16 bit wide low voltage differential (LVD) bus at speeds up to 320 MBps - twice the maximum data transfer rate of Ultra3 SCSI.