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Going Green With Power Systems

Power Architecture is ideal for consolidation, virtualization and energy management

As companies are trying to do more with less, their focus is turning to consolidation and saving energy. Concerns about energy consumption are growing because of increasing electric rates, higher oil prices, technology trends that result in higher power densities and in new server deployments. Clients and manufacturers are looking for systems that achieve greater performance and “eco-efficiency.” IBM’s goal with its POWER6* server line is to provide a highly efficient computing environment and to sustain leadership in energy conservation and management.

With their power-management technologies, IBM systems use less power, generate less heat and use less energy to cool the system. Today’s POWER6 servers combine industry-leading performance, scalability and modularity to enable you to get the most from your investment and build a flexible, Dynamic Infrastructure* that easily adapts and grows based on business needs. No other systems provide the same performance-per-processor core, range of scalability, or the capability to incrementally and linearly add performance and capacities.

Many of the POWER6 line’s technological innovations result in higher energy efficiencies, including more performance per watt (more work per watt). The POWER6 processor allows users to increase the system’s frequency when compared to the previous generation while virtually maintaining the system’s energy consumption. This has almost doubled the server’s energy efficiency. Now clients have the capability to install more services on their system while maintaining the same power consumption.

IBM POWER6 processor-based servers deliver not only outstanding performance per watt, but also innovative virtualization technologies. Momentum is shifting toward consolidated and virtualized infrastructures to reduce the consumption of data-center resources. IBM offers products and services to help you make that shift and support innovative technologies to help conserve energy and reduce costs. Power Systems* solutions are specifically designed to support the consolidation of multiple workloads on a single server.

Power Systems solutions are specifically designed to support the consolidation of multiple workloads on a single server.

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