Overview
IBM eX5 technology has redefined x86 computing, setting new standards across the x86 server landscape.
The latest eX5 systems based on exclusive IBM Enterprise X-Architecture®, feature the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family, larger and more efficient memory options and high IOPS storage, delivering incredible new levels of leadership performance, scalability and reliability for your mission-critical, enterprise-class workloads.
The IBM solidDB in-memory database engine provides a combination of extreme low latency and high throughput for high performance applications, and along with breakthrough server technology offered by eX5, results in an industry-leading solution for extreme speed and performance. 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 solidDB and the eX5 enterprise server portfolio
- solidDB is designed to work exceptionally well in multi-core environments such as eX5, and will take advantage of the innovative IBM MAX5 memory expansion module.
- solidDB is optimized for your most demanding, high-performance workloads and the combined solution of solidDB and eX5 delivers maximum utilization while reducing overall deployment time.
- Virtualization enhancements maximize cost savings by helping businesses consolidate applications, software, servers, networks and storage. Clients buy what they need, when they need it.
- eX5 delivers the most memory for racks and blades with MAX5 resulting in more and larger virtual machines, bigger and faster databases, and greater server utilization. MAX5 can help you meet your growing memory demands and fully harness the memory capacity to get the greatest value from your technology investment.
This unique combination of capabilities will help you efficiently consolidate multiple workloads from older servers, and deliver a faster deployment with less risk — especially for your memory-intensive enterprise workloads.
You will benefit from unprecedented reliability which not only means lowering the cost of operations - but reducing the cost of down time and improving customer satisfaction. In fact, our business clients have consistently ranked IBM x86 servers first in customer satisfaction based on quality and service for five consecutive quarters.
Maintaining high availability is extremely important in many industries. The “five nines” figure (99.999%) of availability is extremely high, required by telecom and data networks, and translates to no more than 5 minutes and 15 seconds of downtime in a single year. IBM solidDB is capable of delivering an even more extreme level of availability, with the ability to achieve 6 nines (99.9999%) availability, which is less than 32 seconds of downtime per year. This is because solidDB enables applications to recover from system failures in less than a second (50-500ms), providing extreme data availability with no single point of failure. Powerful servers such as eX5 make this availability even more meaningful
Further, solidDB can be deployed as a high-speed cache to accelerate access to performance-critical data stored in other relational, disk-based databases, such as IBM DB2®, IBM Informix™, Oracle, Microsoft® SQL Server®, and Sybase. When used in this manner, the solidDB in-memory engine works with high-performance data synchronization software that copies data back and forth between the in-memory cache and a specified back-end database.
Learn how the combined technologies of IBM solidDB and System x help you to achieve an optimal combination of performance, power-efficiency and reliability, and therefore strengthen your overall competitiveness in today’s challenging marketplace.