IBM boosts capabilities of remote storage

Aug 25, 2005: IBM has unveiled a new server that is designed to cope with storage-intensive applications to help remote offices cope with increasing storage and backup requirements.

The IBM eServer x260 is a high performance 7U server based on the X3 architecture, which the company claims, offers superior virtualisation performance over many of its competitors.

IBM said that the X3 architecture, which was introduced in February, is the result of a three-year, one hundred-million-dollar development effort to bring mainframe-inspired capabilities and sophisticated high-end technology to the company's next-generation 64-but Intel Xeon processor MP-based xSeries servers.

Big Blue is also proud of a recent test carried out by independent testing firm VeriTest, which concluded that the X3 architecture-based IBM xSeries 366 outperformed a similarly configured and priced HP AMD Opteron-based ProLiant server, delivering response times that were up to 41 percent faster.

According to the VeriTest benchmark, the X3 architecture delivers better response times for virtualised environments because of its unique memory architecture, which does not degrade in performance as quickly as the HP server.

IBM believes that the x366, combined with IBM's chipset technology expertise, can improve overall system performance compared to the previous generation by up to 47 percent when 64 Gigabytes of memory is used.

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