IBM and SBM to host System x Roadshows in three cities

As your company grows and as new regulations add pressure on your data centre, you may find yourself forced to add more and more server capacity, often escalating the systems management burden and increasing the power consumption in the face of soaring energy costs. With virtualization, new workloads do not have to mean new servers.

IBM virtualization keeps your IT infrastructure dynamic, IBM's model for building a smarter planet through agile, efficient IT delivery that helps provide the freedom to drive your business innovation.

IBM System x and BladeCenter virtualization solutions can help you meet your dynamic business needs with:

• Increased server utilization
• Reduced system management complexity
• Lower power and cooling costs
• Reduced demand for data centre floor space
• Lower IT total cost of ownership.

Cluster 1350 solutions that integrate BladeCenter or iDataPlex servers can reduce power and cooling costs by up to 50%, while maximizing performance density, which is critical for HPC workloads.

IBM BladeCenter and System x are designed for a broad set of client needs from large enterprises to general businesses and high performance computing. IBM's line of x86 systems are backed by hundreds of patents and 100 number one performance benchmarks over the last 10 years. During that time, IBM invested a half a billion dollars in X-Architecture innovations. The result has been a very strong position, particularly in scalable systems.

Our System x Server just became the first single x86 system to burst through the 1 million transactions per minute barrier with the TPC-C benchmark. IBM BladeCenter uses up to 50% less floor space and up to 35% less energy than competitor rack servers without sacrificing performance.

We believe nobody matches the range of operating systems and processors of our Blades. Our clients are able to mix and match five blade chassis and 13 blade server types with six different operating systems, far more than any other blade vendor.

Learn more on these hot topics by attending the roadshows in any of the cities near you: Jeddah, Al-Khobar and Riyadh on June 8, 9 and 10 respectively.

At IBM we want to provide the technology that will truly help businesses innovate and thrive. These roadshows will help you understand how you can create a dynamic, streamlined infrastructure with IBM so you can take your business where you want it to go.