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IBM introduces eServer X3 architecture

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NEWDELHI: IBM has introduced the eServer X3 architecture to bring mainframe-inspired capabilities and high-end technology to businesses seeking to bring mission-critical workloads to Intel-servers. Suitable for financial, manufacturing sectors, the company claims that X3 would be an ideal platform for customers running multi-user, memory intensive applications like ERP and other commercially oriented application-level solutions.

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Culmination of a three year, one hundred-million-dollar development effort, the company claims that the new X3 architecture provides up to 38 percent higher four-way performance than the previous generation of Intel Xeon processor-based systems, enabling businesses to simultaneously run 32-bit and 64-bit applications and more rapidly process massive amounts of data.

IBM also announced the new IBM eServer xSeries 366, the first in a planned IBM family of dual-core-capable Intel-based server offerings. The eServer xSeries 366 is built with 64-bit Intel Xeon processors MP and platform capabilities including support for DDR2-based Active Memory and Active PCI-X 2.0, the new standard for high performance server I/O. The x366 is optimized for server consolidation and enterprise applications, including business software such as IBM DB2 Universal Database, SAP, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.

According to IBM India eServer xSeries and IntelliStation GM Anil Sethi, the new xSeries product family based on X3 draws from our mainframe expertise and provides unprecedented benefits for customers seeking the most sophisticated capabilities and performance from their software applications on an Intel platform."

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He added that the company is targeting the SMB, manufacturing and banking segement for the eServer xSeries 366.

According to IBM, the third generation of IBM's Enterprise X-Architecture design, X3 is optimized for superior server consolidation and enterprise application software, and uses IBM's high-end Virtualization Engine technology to enhance virtualization capabilities. IBM's X3 architecture offers investment protection for IBM customers with its family of pay-as-you-grow Intel-based servers by supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same platform so clients can migrate to 64-bit as needed.

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