IBM is looking to offer customers a way of reducing power consumption in the data center by offering System x and BladeCenter systems with low-watt Intel and Advanced Micro Devices processors.
At the BladeSystems Insight conference April 12 in Savannah, Ga., IBM is scheduled to introduce plans to offer these low-watt processors in its BladeCenter systems and several of its 1U (1.75-inch) and 2U (3.5-inch) System x servers.
The Armonk, N.Y., company is also planning to announce April 12 that it will offer a version of its BladeCenter H21 system with a 4GB modular flash drive.
The use of a solid-state hard drive, according to Doug Balog, vice president of IBM’s BladeCenter business line, can reduce power consumption within a single server. This flash drive option can reduce power either by using it as a Linux boot device or as a storage device for low-bandwidth applications, Balog said.
Compared with a traditional hard drive with moving parts, the flash drive with the BladeCenter H21 XM can reduce power consumption by about 95 percent, Balog said.
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To further reduce power consumption, IBM will start offering low-watt processors in several of server models. Starting April 12, Big Blue will be one of the first OEMs to offer Intel’s 50-watt, quad-core Xeon processor in several of its systems.
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