Product Overview
X-series Servers
IBM System x from CentriServ
CentriServ has an IBM System x solution to fit your company's needs.
IBM x86 servers for Windows and Linux are designed to deliver exceptional availability, simplified manageability, outstanding performance and revolutionary scalability.
Why IBM System x
Adding innovation to industry standards, IBM delivers x86 servers—with X-Architecture® technology—that run faster and cooler, use less power and make ideal platforms for virtualization. IBM System x and BladeCenter solutions help reduce your total costs so your data center can run efficiently as possible.
All System x servers are built on IBM Enterprise X-Architecture™ technology, a blueprint for building the power of the mainframe into Intel processor-based systems.
X-Architecture technology
IBM X-Architecture technology® marries powerful innovation from IBM Research with 40 years of mainframe experience. The result is outstanding x86 server solutions for our clients. In addition to helping to improve energy management, IBM System x™ and BladeCenter® servers help optimize performance, reliability and manageability for a potentially lower cost of ownership. So X-Architecture technology provides a comprehensive approach to solving your IT challenges today and a forward-looking approach to designing for tomorrow's challenges.
The X-Architecture design philosophy targets five key areas
Adaptive performance
The line between scale-up and scale-out servers is blurring. Performance becomes about utilization through virtualization, which is crucial to unlocking the value of multicore processors. With all these workloads running on the same server, reliability remains important but availability becomes more critical than ever. IBM high-performance scalable x86 servers are designed to deliver the highest levels of utilization, flexibility, and availability to the data center, which allows you to adjust your system's performance as your needs change.
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Integrated infrastructure
IBM BladeCenter integrates servers, storage and networking to help you reduce complexity, simplify IT management and reduce costs, through a flexible and highly scalable design. Through X-Architecture technology, IBM BladeCenter has been able to deliver advantages in power and cooling, I/O throughput, virtualization and flexibility.
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Modular optimization
"Simply put, the IBM philosophy regarding rack-based servers is 'innovation comes standard.'" IBM is delivering next-generation technology today that the competition can't match. Some server vendors view uni and 2-socket servers as commodities, using off-the-shelf components to produce cookie-cutter servers with no added value. Instead, IBM X-Architecture system design begins with standard parts and adds practical innovation to create something better: outstanding dual- and quad-core performance, high availability, scalability, power efficiency and proactive manageability.
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Efficient power and cooling
X-Architecture technology helps unleash energy efficiency in IBM's arsenal of x86 rack, tower and blade servers. Part of the Cool Blue portfolio, innovative tools like IBM PowerExecutive and the IBM Power Configurator can provide you accurate and precise power information about your systems for effective energy management.
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Proactive management
Hardware and software tools with proactive, predictive capabilities that simplify deployment, monitor system health, limit power usage and report pending problems, are crucial to keeping costs under control. With X-Architecture technology, IBM offers a number of tools to help you tame the complexity of systems management and administration, while managing costs.
