IBM unveiled a number of major additions to its Flex System portfolio.



Here! IBM continues to improve its Flex System portfolio; today Connectikpeople has nabbed some movements at IBM. We have observed that,
The new offerings combine the latest server technology with new virtualization, networking and management tools, with the goal to
allow its clients to consolidate their existing IT infrastructures and reduce operating costs.
According to IBM, this will help its clients:
·        Use smaller data center environments to quickly deploy, manage and secure increasingly larger clouds.
·        These additional Flex Systems products deliver the features that provide clients with the choices they need as they seek to reduce costs and invest in technologies that provide future scalability.
Henceforth the offerings consist of three systems built on both IBM POWER7+ and a “double dense” x222 system built on x86 technology.
Connectikpeople has also discovered that, IBM has upgraded the Flex System Manager. This means, its clients can monitor and manage up to 5,000 infrastructure end points and do so from any location utilizing iOS, Android and Blackberry mobile devices. 
As the key elements announced today, Connectikpeople has nabbed:  
  • Flex System x222: A new double density design built on x86 architecture that allows support for up to 2,800 Windows 7 user images in a single chassis;
  • Flex System p460 :Delivers POWER7+ performance for clients with larger workloads;
  • Flex System p270 :  A POWER7+ option that is designed for medium-sized businesses and delivers performance for technical computing and data analytics;
  • Flex System p260:  A new entry-level POWER7+ node ideal for IBM i workloads;
  • Flex System Manager :Provides management of more systems from a single point of control and the ability to do so from any location with iOS, Android or Blackberry devices; provides a new utilization fuel gauge to help clients monitor the status and availability of their infrastructure manage; and has been expanded with the ability to manage the System x HANA-optimized x3950;
  • New switches and fabrics that help enable Software Defined Networks (SDN) and improve connectivity and performance by increasing infrastructure bandwidth up to 40Gb.

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