IBM on Monday unveiled high-capacity servers that are the first to be based on its new, multi-core POWER7 chip. The company said the new product line is designed “to manage the most demanding emerging applications,” including high-capacity smart electrical grids and real-time analytics for financial markets.

The servers are optimized for processing huge workloads of simultaneous transactions, documents handling, and analysis. IBM said they offer “dramatic improvements” in price versus performance, energy savings, and server virtualization.

The new systems are built around the newest generation of IBM’s capability chip, with eight processing cores, and are designed to manage millions of transactions in real date while utilizing a variety of approaches to remain highly energy-efficient. With Intelligent Energy technology, for instance, parts of the system can be turned on or off, and clock speed can be lowered or raised, on one server or a group. The company […]

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