By Jennifer LeClaire | SCI-TECH TODAY.COM
With its Smarter Computing platform, IBM is aiming to help enterprise customers contend with and take full advantage of three critical IT trends: cloud computing, analytics and security, said analyst Charles King. He said IBM’s latest Power7+ servers, along with the new DS8870 storage and other just-announced products, are valuable additions.
IBM has taken the cover off new technologies that aim to help enterprises beef up security, leverage cloud computing and analyze large volumes of data. The new products include a Power Systems update, a new high-end disk storage system and software updates for IBM’s newest mainframe computer. It all fits into Big Blue’s Smarter Computing platform.
Front and center in the announcement is a new Power Systems lineup with the Power7+ microprocessor, which promises performance bumps of 30 percent to 40 percent on app workloads compared with previous versions. IBM said it invested $1.4 billion in R&D around the product, which includes new hardware and software innovations in the Power 770, Power 780 and Power 795 models.
The Power7+ offers an expanded 2.5x L3 cache memory, better security with faster file encryption for the IBM AIX operating system, and memory compression that doesn’t increase the energy usage over previous Power7 chips. The top-of-the-line Power 795, for example, lets enterprises run business analytics quickly by tapping up to 16 terabytes of memory with new 64-GB DIMMs.
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