Johannesburg, 08 Apr 2010
JSE-listed IT services and solutions company Faritec now offers IBM's eX5 Intel server, enabling clients to reduce licence costs by up to 50%.
Earlier in March, IBM revealed its latest Intel server offerings, the eX5. Now in its fifth generation, IBM X-Architecture continues to build on its deep partnership with Intel and a decade of x86 innovations to provide unparalleled configuration choice, mainframe-inspired reliability, comprehensive systems management and an energy-smart design.
With the ability to help you maximise memory, minimise costs and simplify deployment and ownership, eX5 can help you get the greatest value for your organisation today and in the future.
Corne Kruger, IBM SystemX Product Manager at Faritec, says that this is truly game changing technology. Combining the fifth generation of IBM X-Architecture with the next-generation 45nm Intel Xeon processors, eX5 offers a high-end enterprise server portfolio designed for environments with continually evolving workload requirements. Flexible configurations, rack, blade and a modular building block design enable multiple implementations from affordable starting points to enterprise technology, while a range of form factors and different sizes deliver broad coverage for most enterprise applications, server consolidation and virtualisation environments.
According to Kruger, IBM engineers expanded the capabilities of the x86 platform by decoupling memory from its traditional place next to the server's processor, eliminating the need for another server to support growing memory-intensive workloads, resulting in the new servers having six times the memory scalability available today over current generation IBM systems, with the aim of flattening data centre operating costs.
Other features in the eX5 systems include eXFlash flash-storage technology providing solid state disks within the system for faster data access and FlexNode that allows physical partitioning to change from one system to two distinct systems and back again for running infrastructure applications by day and larger batch jobs by night on the same system.
According to Kruger, eX5 allows IT departments to run 82% more "virtual servers" for the same licence costs, and reduce middleware and application expenses dramatically, for example, a business running a Microsoft database could cut its licensing costs by 50% by using eX5.
“The price/performance equation is extraordinarily compelling. Our clients get better performance at a fraction of the cost, double their virtualised workload and at the same time saving money on software licensing costs,” says Kruger.
Faritec supports the IBM System P Unix platform, System x servers, System z & IBM storage and, among others, the WebSphere, Tivoli & ISS software portfolios. The company has a large certified IBM skills base and is able to architect, configure, deploy and provide post-sales and service support around these products.
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