Overview
IBM eX5 technology has redefined x86 computing, setting new standards across the x86 server landscape.
The latest IBM eX5 enterprise systems, based on the 5th generation of IBM® Enterprise X-Architecture®, feature the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family, larger and more efficient memory options and high IOPS storage, delivering even greater levels of leadership performance, scalability and reliability for your mission-critical, enterprise-class workloads. Together, with the power and scalability of IBM Informix®, you can now accomplish much more with much less. Brace yourself for ultra-scalability. Get ready for previously unknown levels of flexibility, allowing you to drive enterprise and virtualized workloads faster and more efficiently than ever before and at lower overall costs.
The power of Informix and the eX5 enterprise server portfolio
- Optimized for your most demanding workloads, the combined solution delivers maximum utilization while reducing deployment from months to days.
- Revolutionize your Informix database performance with the new eX5 eXFlash technology that combines solid-state disk technology and high-speed controller architecture to deliver extreme performance.
- Experience scaling architecture for unmatched flexibility.
- Maximize cost savings with virtualization enhancements that help businesses consolidate applications, software, servers, networks and storage.
- The unique IBM MAX5 memory expansion module provides more memory slots than the competition, so you can have more total memory, or the same amount of memory at a significantly lower cost (using lower-capacity DIMMs). MAX5 can help you meet your growing memory demands and fully harness the memory capacity to get the greatest value from your technology investment.
The combined technologies of Informix and eX5 systems help you to reduce costs with ease of management, remote administration, and high-availability redundancy features that enable business continuity. Active clustering technology offers a wide range of choices for business continuity and can reduce IT infrastructure costs by scaling out on low cost hardware.
Learn how these powerful eX5 systems running Informix can improve performance and productivity and strengthen your competitiveness, allowing you to achieve a robust return from your IT investments.
"IBM is excited about the new eX5 systems because they represent a leap forward in x86 server design for both rack and blade configurations. This breakthrough technology delivers improvements in scalability, memory capacity, storage flexibility, and system reliability that together result in lower costs for our clients. We will absolutely take advantage of the unique eX5 technologies, such as MAX5 and eXFlash, and marry them with our software innovations to deliver workload optimized systems for both database and analytic workloads - where memory and storage performance is critical. The combination of Informix and eX5 will look to offer our clients increased customer scalability on demand while delivering peak performance, dynamic workload balancing and productivity."
- Jerry Keesee, Director, IBM Informix Database Development