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Friday, February 15th, 2008

IBM’s System p 570 server wins prestigious Nikkei Award for Superiority and Datamation Enterprise Server of the Year

Here’s a shameless plug for the IBM team that designs POWER processors and servers. It looks like the Nikkei found the new POWER6 based p570 servers quite compelling. (Unfortunately, they forgot to mention the 570 is a screaming system for Linux – not just UNIX). Nonetheless, this is a great award for the IBM Power team and as you can see the “green” and energy savings efficiencies that the team built into the server contributed to IBM’s leadership and success. Having the fastest system “twice as other companies” while keeping the same power envelope seems to have been a successful strategy ;-)

“Nikkei Business Daily Awards for Superiority – Server “IBM System p 570” by IBM Japan” – IBM Japan released the first UNIX high-performance server after an interval of 3 years. The processing ability has been improved twice as other companies, compatible with keeping power consumption to be equivalent to their existing servers. Core part of CPU (central processing unit) is equipped with the latest version, “POWER6” released by IBM. Operating frequency, which shows processing ability, is 4.7GHz – giga is 1 billion- , and this is the first time to reach 4 GHz. Both Japan and U.S. engineers of IBM jointly developed this server to resolve the serious problem of increasing the power consumption.”

In news closer to home, Datamation just announced the same p570 server “easily won” the Enterprise Server of the year.

Enterprise Server
Whether a server is the “best” server is, in truth, based on your company’s individual needs and budgets. In the server world, with its myriad options and add-ons, one size definitely does not fit all. That said, IBM p 570 Server must fit plenty of needs; the box easily won the Enterprise Server category. IBM claims this workhorse doubles the speed of its predecessor without requiring a larger energy footprint.
The other nominees were all well-regarded boxes: the IBM System x3950 M2 Server, the HP MediaSmart Server, and the Dell PowerEdge 2970.