IBM Power 550 Express

The IBM Power™ 550 Express delivers the outstanding performance of the POWER6™ processor—the world's fastest chip. The performance and virtualization capabilities of the Power 550 Express make it an ideal system as a mid-size database or application server. The Power 550 delivers the performance to run applications faster and more efficiently, which can result in business advantages.

For mid-size database servers, the Power 550 Express provides outstanding performance, capacity and near-continuous application availability. Mid-sized companies can access data faster, keep their applications running around the clock, and focus attention on growing their business.

The Power 550 Express supports an extensive portfolio of proven solutions by supporting multiple operating systems: AIX^®, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications. This flexibility in operating environments lets you deploy the applications your business demands.

As a consolidation server, the Power 550 Express provides the flexibility to use leading-edge AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications all on the same system. PowerVM™ Editions offers comprehensive virtualization technologies designed to aggregate and manage resources while helping to simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure and reduce server sprawl.

For a scalable, complete integrated business system, the Power 550 Express allows the mid-sized company seeking simplicity to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to their customers, improving their productivity and keeping their data secure.

The Power 550 Express is a 2-, 4-, 6- or 8-core entry server utilizing 3.5, 4.2 or 5.0 GHz processors and includes tremendous configuration flexibility to meet most capacity and growth requirements. The Power 550 Express offers a choice of operating environments in either a deskside or 4U rack-mount form factor. The platform is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium-sized businesses with the leadership performance of POWER6 processors, choice of operating systems, proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM, and support for innovative energy management technologies to help conserve energy and reduce costs. Whether you need a scalable complete business system with integrated database and application server, reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing system for application or database serving, the Power 550 Express server can fulfill your requirements with the AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems.

Highlights:

• For UNIX^®, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS^®) and Linux^® ERP/CRM application servers
• For mid-size database servers
• For consolidation of UNIX, IBM i, and x86 Linux workloads
• For medium to large-sized businesses running the IBM i operating system

Features & benefits

Features	Benefits
Leadership POWER6 performance	Access data faster and improve response time Do more work with fewer servers and experience infrastructure cost savings from a reduction in the number of servers and software licenses
Outstanding scalability and capacity	Easily grow the system as your business grows Consolidate UNIX and Linux workloads utilizing PowerVM Editions
Application availability	Broad portfolio of proven solutions with support for AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux operating systems Keep applications up and running and focus on growing your business
Flexibility and choice of AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems	Choose the operating system that best suits your application and business needs Easily grow the system as your business grows
Improved utilization and energy efficiency through PowerVM and EnergyScale technologies	Better utilize IT assets while avoiding the costs of deploying a new server every time the business needs another application Go green and save with innovative energy management capabilities
Integration and simplicity	Deploy applications faster and maintain systems more efficiently with fewer staff Integrated business platform that allows all the applications to access the data they need to improve productivity