Thursday, February 10, 2005
IBM announced this week that it will be offering two new low-end Unix servers, running on its 64-bit Power5 processor.
The company already offers two 4U servers in the series – the two-way p5 520 and the four-way p5 550 – however the new offerings, the p5 510 and 510 Express, are aimed squarely at HP and Sun who have been doing their best to dominate the low-end space over the last couple of years.
"IBM has begun taking market share in the Unix space for several quarters now from the competition," said Jeff Howard, program director for p5 product marketing at IBM. "We have a lot of share in the high-end and midmarket space, and we think there is a lot of room to take space in the low end. … The 2U space is about 38 percent of the two-way Unix server revenue, and a little more in shipments, and we haven't had an offering in this space for a little while now."
The 510 will be available starting Feb 18 and will come with one or two processors and will be build on a 1.65GHz Power 5 chip. The single-processor 510 Express comes with IBM middleware, Websphere, TotalStorage and a variety of third party applications, will ship later this week with a 1.5GHz chip. A two-way version will be available in April.
The 510 will run IBM’s AIX 5L OS, as well as Unix, will be the company’s first sub-$4000 p5 system and will support IBM’s Virtualization Engine, which will allow it to run both AIX and Linux simultaneously.
The system is aimed at customers with remote stores and offices and that are running edge-of-network applications, Howard said.
IBM will conduct demos of various Power-based systems this weekend, including the rack-optimized two-way OpenPower 710, which the company unveiled late last month. IBM also is expected to demo its two-way i5/520—supporting the Power architecture's virtualization capabilities—running Linux, AIX and i5/OS (the newest generation of the OS/400 operating system) simultaneously.
By: DocMemory
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