In response to customer demand for easy-to-deploy and flexible e-business solutions, IBM has announced the broadest transformation of its IBM eServer iSeries in more than a decade, delivering pre-packaged software, On/Off Capacity Upgrade on Demand by the day and price/performance improvements of up to 80% for mid-market customers.
Despite what it says in the press release - "customers can upgrade their systems when they need to, all the way from a uniprocessor to a 10-way server, without disrupting their business," according to Brenda Zawatski, director of enterprise systems at IBM's S/390 division - the new Capacity Upgrade on Demand upgrade function that comes with the new microcode has very specific limitations.
20, 2003 In response to customer demand for easy-to-deploy and flexible e-business solutions, IBM today announced the broadest transformation of its IBM eServer iSeries in more than a decade, delivering pre-packaged software, On/Off Capacity Upgrade on Demand by the day and price/performance improvements of up to 80% for mid-market customers.
Instant Scalability: To make it easy for customers to expand their infrastructure, IBM will offer Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) for processors and memory(6).
Instant Scalability: To make it easy for customers to expand their infrastructure, IBM will offer Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) for processors and memory(6).
The leading benchmark results achieved when the IBM eServer is stacked up against the competition are as follows: Java performance (SPECjbb2000 benchmark)(4) -- Eight-way IBM p660 6M1 handles 15% more operations/second than Sun's more expensive twelve-way UltraSparcIII-based Sun Fire 6800, and 80 percent more operations/second than an eight-way HP 9000 N4000 Web serving (SPECweb99 benchmark) (5) -- The IBM p660 6M1 is the world's fastest eight-way Web-server, offering 93% of the performance of Sun's twelve-way UltraSparcIII-based Sun Fire 4810 The server's Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) capabilities -- available for the first time in an IBM UNIX midrange server -- helps customers meet unexpected growth in their businesses.
