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This report presents the results of tests conducted by Edison Group to compare the power consumption of the IBM BladeCenter blade server system with a comparable BladeSystem blade server configuration from HP. It provides background, configuration details, and methodology by which Edison reached its conclusion: that IBM BladeCenter H requires nearly 10 percent less power […]

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IBM Corporation commissioned VeriTest, the testing service of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., to perform competitive testing on their IBM System x3755, a 4-socket AMD Opteron server, against a comparative product from Hewlett Packard (“HP”) in order to quantify the performance advantages of the x3755 when leveraging their Pass Thru card and Xcelerated Memory Technology™. The IBM […]

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The IBM System x3755 out performed the HP DL585 G2 by 10.4% using SPECjbb2005 with identical CPU and Memory configurations. This exemplifies the Xcelerated Memory Technology™ and its ability to deliver a performance advantage.
The IBM System x3755 when configured with three processors and IBM’s CPU Pass Thru card out performed the HP DL585 G2 configured […]

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The base reliability of a computing system is, at its most fundamental level, dependent upon the intrinsic failure rates of the components that comprise it. Very simply, highly reliable servers are built with highly reliable components. On POWER6™ processor-based systems, this basic premise is augmented with a clear “design for reliability” architecture and methodology. The […]

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The ability of application servers to deliver high performance varies greatly, depending on the specifics of any given customer’s workload. IBM raises the bar for scalable, high-performance application servers with the introduction of IBM eServer X3 Architecturethe ground-breaking third-generation of the IBM Enterprise X-Architecture XA-64e™ chipset. Incorporating this new chipset, the IBM eServer xSeries 366 […]

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Small and midsized companies want to focus on their business and not their IT infrastructure. The IBM i5 520 server—a new member of the IBM iSeries™ family—can deliver not only the power and capacity to run core business applications, but also the ability to add new e-business applications.

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The IBM® p5 570 midrange server implements outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired reliability and availability features, flexible capacity upgrades and innovative virtualization technologies. Based on POWER5 processors with simultaneous multithreading and a unique scalable, building block packaging, the p5-570 is well-suited for server consolidation projects, database and application serving, e-commerce and departmental or regional server deployments. The […]

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The default installation of Cisco voice products on the IBM platform will install the Director Agent in an unsecure state, leaving the Director services vulnerable to remote administration control and/or Denial of Service attacks. The vulnerabilities can be mitigated by configuration changes and Cisco is providing a repair script that will close the vulnerable ports […]

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IBM Tivoli Directory Server version 6.0 (ITDS) is an implementation of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is compliant with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) LDAP Version 2 specifications, i.e. RFC 1777 and LDAP Version 3 specifications, i.e. RFC 2251-2256. The server is a software only product and can be installed and operated on […]

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This document presents the storage findings and recommendations for SAS 9.1 with IBM TotalStorage DS4000 disk arrays (formerly known as FAStT). Recently IBM and SAS team members tested SAS 9.1 at the IBM Beaverton Test Labs. SAS ETL Test Suite 1.4 was used for the test workload generator. The test environment hardware included a SAN […]

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