IBM unveils UNIX server, supercomputer

New Delhi

April 15, 2008

IBM announced two high-end power systems models-UNIX server and a
water-cooled supercomputer. The new systems offer IBM virtualization technology
and energy-saving capabilities to help reduce bottomline operating costs, such
as those for energy, floor space and systems management, while improving system
performance, helping customers transition to a new enterprise data center.

“The announcement of incredibly high-value UNIX and supercomputer
solutions, coupled with last week's announcement of the first of a new
generation of servers that takes our System i clients forward on a mainstream
platform, opens up a whole new world of possibilities for our Power Systems
clients,” said Rajesh Saha, Country Manger-Enterprise Systems, Systems and
Technology Group, IBM India/SA.

IBM's new POWER6 'Hydro-Cluster' supercomputer, the Power 575, is built
to help users tackle challenging problems in fields such as energy, aerospace
and weather modeling. The new super-dense system uses in-rack, water-cooling
system and with 448 processor cores per rack offers users nearly five times the
performance and more than three times the energy efficiency of its predecessor,
IBM's POWER5 processor-based p575 supercomputer.

“These advanced processors deliver two-to-three times the performance per
core of comparable HP or Sun processors. The significant energy conservation
design improvements enable POWER6 to deliver twice the performance requiring
nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cool it as its POWER5
predecessor,” he added.

Power rewards program

This new program offers reward points to competitively installed customers
based on the number of HP or Sun cores retired or traded-in when migrating to
IBM Power Systems. Customers can redeem points toward no-charge migration
services to move from HP-UX or Sun Solaris to AIX or Linux operating
environments. IBM is offering a very aggressive 1,000 points per core for Sun
UltraSPARC and SPARC-based systems, HP Alpha and Itanium technology-based
systems, and SGI MIPS trade ins.

Since HP will no longer guarantee they will sell PA-RISC-based HP Superdome
systems after the end of the year, IBM is giving those customers an alternative
to HP's multi-year plea to migrate to Itanium technology-based HP Superdome.
IBM is offering quadruple the power rewards points for PA-RISC-based system
trade-ins-or 4,000 per core, redeemable for up to $4,000 worth of no-charge
IBM migration services-to help those customers easily justify the migration to
IBM.

A wide range of additional discounts on hardware, software or services are
available and a reward points table is published for accumulating and redeeming
Power Rewards. IBM will also re-use or recycle competitive HP or Sun servers in
an eco-responsible manner.

IBM Global Technology Services offers a full complement of asset-based,
standardized services for Power Systems, ranging from implementation to
availability, virtualization and support, along with energy efficiency and
security assessments, which allow clients to maximize their investment in IBM
Power servers and software. Clients can also take advantage of PowerCare
Services-with the purchase of a Power 595 server, clients are eligible to
select one of five PowerCare services options, free of charge.

The Power 595 will be available on May 6.