IBM eServer Highly Flexible Simplify Your IT Infrastructure

The IBM eServer i5 is the upcoming generation iSeries, the companies first POWER5 processor-based server. The eServer i5 570 is more productive, simpler, more resilient to help you prepare your business for the on-demand world.

Designed for the complex needs of medium to large enterprises, the IBM eServer i5 570 servers, the newest member of the iSeries family, can help businesses reduce data center complexity, simplify IT infrastructure, and effectively manage IT service level commitments.

A highly scalable, expandable, industry-standard rack-optimized building block architecture assists support balanced growth from 1-way to 4-way servers.

Switch on extra power at a moment's notice with Capacity on Demand characteristic.

Advanced virtualization technologies allow eServer i5 570 servers to run multiple operating systems and application environments simultaneously, including IBMi5/OS (the next generation of OS/400), Linux, IBMAIX® 5L, Microsoft™ Windows™ Server, Lotus Domino, and WebSphere software.

By supporting many operating systems, IBM eServer i5 servers can help simplify IT infrastructures, providing you to deploy the latest applications, and consolidate operations on a single, highly flexible, reliable server. Refer to the Product Preview of Hardware Announcement 104-160, dated May 4, 2004, for more data.

The IBM 570 can dynamically distribute processing resources where you need them most, raising server utilization rates and improving productivity. Instead of dedicating storage to every server or managing a complex SAN, you can choose to share a single storage pool.

With the excellent bandwidth network inside the model 570, you can communicate more steady between applications without dedicating expensive network devices.

The 570 is provided in Standard or Enterprise Editions packaging with the POWER5 hardware some of the most popular Software including:

· Security and workload management tools

· Database

· Software for e-mail and instant messaging

The eServer i5 570 has been designed for maximum availability and reliability.

· Enables businesses to leverage existing applications while expanding to POWER5, the ninth generation of 64-bit processors.

· Builds on iSeries' legendary reliability, incorporating hot-plug IOA and disk slots, redundant hot-plug power supplies, dual power cords, redundant hot-plug cooling fans, and optional redundant CPU power regulator.