IBM Power Systems provides powerful servers for businesses. The document highlights IBM's Power7 and Power6 servers, which offer high performance, energy efficiency, and consolidation capabilities. IBM has seen success migrating customers from other vendors' systems to Power servers. Analysts note IBM's leadership in the UNIX server market and the strong performance of Power7 compared to competitors' offerings.

1. IBM Power Systems
Power your planet.
Smarter systems for a Smarter Planet.
Rafael Pineiro
Sales Executive
IBM Power Systems
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2. IBM Power Systems
Customers are moving to higher value
…as shown by the largest shift of customer spending in UNIX History
UNIX Server Rolling Four Quarter Average Revenue Share
POWER6
Live Partition
Mobility
POWER5
Micro-
Micro-Partitioning
POWER4
Dynamic LPARs
Source: IDC Quarterly Server Tracker Q309 release, November 2009
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successful Power Migration Factory migrations to date.
There were over 500 Power migrations during 2009, with more than
90% from Sun and HP customers (including x86 consolidation). In
4Q09 alone, Power achieved nearly 200 competitive migrations.
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Power Systems – February 2010
New POWER7 in middle of the line Power 780
 Power 750 Express
 Power 755 for HPC Power 770
 Power 770 modular
 Power 780 modular high-end
POWER6 continues
 Power 520, Blades Power 750
 Power 550
 Power 560
 Power 570
 Power 575 Power 560
 Power 595
Power 755
JS Blades
IBM Systems Software
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5. IBM Power Systems
More SAP performance than any 8-socket server in the industry
Comparable to a 128-core, 32-socket Sun M9000
Power 750
Express
SAP SD 2-Tier Users on
The IBM Power 750 Express.
24-core 32-core 32-core 48-core 48-core 128-core
Opteron Sun T5440 Power 750 Opteron Opteron Sun M9000
4-sockets 8-sockets 32-sockets
SAP Result planned for publish Feb 2010
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Number of Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000’s that can be consolidated into a single
IBM Power 750 4 socket system saving 95% of the cores for software licensing, 97%
on floorspace, and 95% on energy.
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7. IBM Power Systems
savings on energy costs with 28% more
performance at a fraction of the price using a
single IBM Power 750 instead of a
64-core HP Integrity Superdome.
Superdome or Super Power?
Shown to actual scale
HP Integrity Superdome 64c IBM Power 750 Express
✓

1.6GHz dual-core Itanium2 in a 30”x77.2”x48” frame  socket, 32 Core 4Ux19” wide
4

POWER7 Processors

Maximum energy requirement of 11,586 Watts

Maximum energy requirement of 1,950 Watts

SPECint_rate2006: 824 
SPECint_rate2006: 1060
See Power 750 server compared to HP Integrity Superdome substantiation detail.
Source: SPECiint_rate2006. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org .
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Number of HP Integrity Superdome 64-core systems utilized at 30% that can be
consolidated into a single IBM Power 780 modular high-end system utilized at 80%
saving 87% of the cores for software licensing, reduces floorspace required from
80 square feet to just 7.6, and reduces energy costs by 92%.
Super Power indeed.
See Power 780 server compared to HP Integrity Superdome substantiation detail.
Source: SPECiint_rate2006. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org .
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up to
Reduction in energy usage moving from POWER5 to POWER7.
Savings extend to floor space, software license costs,
and maintenance. Increase your performance and capacity.
2 POWER5 590 systems 4 POWER5 570 systems
64 cores @ 2.1 GHz 64 cores @ 1.9 GHz
30% utilization 30% utilization
1
•
Power 770
24 cores @ 3.5 GHz
1
•
Power 770
24 cores @ 3.5 GHz
• 60% utilization • 60% utilization
30% effective capacity increase 50% effective capacity increase
90% reduction in energy usage 84% reduction in energy usage
~$600K maintenance savings over 3 years ~$250K maintenance savings over 3 years
> $1M savings in software licensing > $1M savings in software licensing
With room to spare to consolidate x86 workloads
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10. IBM Power Systems
Power your planet.
+ AIX - The Future of UNIX
Total Integration with i
Scalable Linux ready for x86
Consolidation
Workload-Optimizing Systems
Virtualization without Limits Dynamic Energy Optimization
Drive over 90% utilization 70-90% energy cost reduction
Dynamically scale per demand EnergyScale™ technologies
Resiliency without Downtime Management with Automation
Roadmap to continuous VMControl to manage
availability virtualization
High availability systems & Automation to reduce task time
scaling
Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.
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Analysts Quotations
IBM’s POWER7 announcement demonstrated the confidence of a vendor in firm
control and thinking far ahead of its peers, and with good reason. Less than a
decade ago, IBM trailed both Sun and HP in UNIX system sales. Today, it leads
both those rivals with some 40% of the $16 billion UNIX market. As Itanium and
SPARC development hit potholes, snapped axels and headed into the ditch,
IBM’s Power efforts stayed remarkably on track and true to the company’s long
term roadmap. POWER7’s significant performance improvements mean that it is
unlikely that any competing platforms or systems will pressure, let alone alter,
IBM’s current UNIX performance leadership position where the company’s
Power6/6+ systems own over a hundred #1 industry benchmarks.
Charles King, Pund-IT
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12. IBM Power Systems
Analysts Quotations
IBM’s POWER7 announcement demonstrated the confidence of a vendor in firm
control and thinking far ahead of its peers, and with good reason. Less than a
decade ago, IBM trailed both Sun and HP in UNIX system sales. Today, it leads
both those rivals with some 40% of the $16 billion UNIX market. As Itanium and
SPARC development hit potholes, snapped axels and headed into the ditch,
IBM’s Power efforts stayed remarkably on track and true to the company’s long
term roadmap. POWER7’s significant performance improvements mean that it is
unlikely that any competing platforms or systems will pressure, let alone alter,
IBM’s current UNIX performance leadership position where the company’s
Power6/6+ systems own over a hundred #1 industry benchmarks.
Charles King, Pund-IT
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Analysts Quotations
This week both IBM and Intel rolled out advanced processors for the heaviest
server workloads. IBM introduced Power 7, the next revision of its RISC
architecture, while Intel brought out the “Tukwila” generation of its Itanium line,
now named the Itanium 9300.
Gear heads have measured them against each other and found in favor of IBM.
Power 7 has a total of 32 threads, derived from eight cores that process four
threads each.
Roger L. Kay
President, Endpoint Technologies Associates
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Analysts Quotations
As a demonstration of commitment, Intel indicated this week that it will jump from
the 65nm process, on which Tukwila is based,
to 32nm, the leading edge, for its next generation Itanium, skipping the
intermediate 45nm node (and tacitly recognizing that Itanium development has
fallen behind). Meanwhile, Tukwila is a year late and barely provides a sparing
partner for Power 7.
Roger Kay
Endpoint
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