Notes from today’s IBM announcement from the NY Stock Exchange concerning their new Enterprise X-Architecture eX5 portfolio of x86 products.
speakers: Wilfredo Sotolongo VP of System X Sales North America
Bill Donohue describes this as THE most exciting announcement they have ever made in the x86 arena.
98 pct of servers in DC are x86
53 pct of spend is in the x86 arena
We can no longer throw processors at the problems. We need smarter architecture.
Its time for the next revolution. Its time to take PC out of the PC…IBM Created the first PC.
Biggest issue today is memory!
6 times the memory of what is out there today
2x the capacity of competitors forever
IBM is not releasing this technology to its competitors like it has done in the past
Announcement is about a new way of thinking about x86.
They have spend more in R&D in x5 than on any other technology.
Bob Zuber – Program Director of IBM World Wide High Performance
Out of all of this comes eX5
Flex proc node
Satish Gupta VP of Systems Hardware Development at STG
Working on changing the model of what a mainframe is!
IBM makes their own silicon. Their competitors do not.
IBM Invented the disk drive in 1956
You can now access storage at the same speed in memory.
IBM is the largest systems company with the broadest portfolio in the industry.
1/2 of IBMs R&D is in Systems, the other 1/2 is in software for those systems.
Acxiom runs 10,000 intel servers in production
Michael North – NFL
