IBM introduces eX5 servers

BANGALORE: IBM today introduced the eX5 servers, that it said offers more scalable, workload-tuned computing on the x86 platform.

The eX5 portfolio marks IBM's second family of 2010 systems designed for a new generation of demanding workloads and to significantly reduce costs of existing IT infrastructure, it said in a statement.

The company's new eX5 servers are the result of a three-year engineering effort to improve the economics of operating enterprise-sized, x86-based systems, IBM said.

IBM engineers have radically expanded the capabilities of the x86 platform by achieving an engineering first -- decoupling memory from its traditional, tightly bound place alongside the server's processor, thereby eliminating the need to buy another server to support growing memory-intensive workloads, the company said.

"This all-new class of x86-based systems offers six times the memory scalability available today, helping to flatten the ever-rising cost of operating industry-standard data centres", the statement said.