IBM on Tuesday introduced a new server technology it says will dramatically increase performance and cut computing costs for businesses that run their applications and storage on industry-standard, Intel-based servers.
Big Blue's eX5 chipset, announced at the CeBIT industry conference in Hannover, Germany, promises to reduce the number of servers required for a given workload by 50%, cut storage costs by 97%, and lower licensing fees by half, according to the company.
eX5-based servers will incorporate Intel's 45-nm Nehalem processors.
IBM said the whopping productivity gains are the result of an $800 million engineering project that delivered a system that uses memory much more efficiently than previous generations of server chipsets, including IBM's own X4 technology.
eX5 effectively eliminates a system's requirement to use chip-side memory for tasks where speed is critical by allowing the chip to access extended memory as quickly as it does native memory.
"With independent memory scaling offering 600% more memory than is available across the industry today, and unique, next-generation flash-storage technology, the eX5 portfolio of systems will display economy-altering capabilities
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