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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. Leadership POWER6 performance The leadership performance of the POWER6 processor-the world's fastest chip-makes it possible for applications to run faster and be more responsive, which can result in business advantages and higher client satisfaction. In addition, a single system can now run more applications and can reduce the number of required servers reducing infrastructure costs. Feature Benefits Leadership POWER6 performance Outstanding scalability and capacity Application availability Flexibility and choice of AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems Improved utilization and energy efficiency through PowerVM and EnergyScale™ technologies Integration and simplicity ● 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 ● Easily grow the system as your business grows ● Consolidate UNIX and Linux workloads utilizing PowerVM Editions ● 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 ● Choose the operating system that best suits your application and business needs ● Easily grow the system as your business grows ● 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 ● 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

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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 pro-
ductivity 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 busi-
ness value to medium-sized businesses
with the leadership performance of
POWER6 processors, choice of operat-
ing systems, proven virtualization capa-
bilities of PowerVM, and support for
innovative energy management tech-
nologies to help conserve energy and
reduce costs. Whether you need a
scalable complete business system
with integrated database and applica-
tion 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 require-
ments with the AIX, IBM i or Linux oper-
ating systems.
Leadership POWER6 performance
The leadership performance of the
POWER6 processor—the world’s
fastest chip—makes it possible for
applications to run faster and be more
responsive, which can result in busi-
ness advantages and higher client sat-
isfaction. In addition, a single system
can now run more applications and
can reduce the number of required
servers reducing infrastructure costs.
Feature
Benefits
Leadership POWER6 performance
Outstanding scalability and capacity
Application availability
Flexibility and choice of AIX, IBM i, and
Linux operating systems
Improved utilization and energy
efficiency through PowerVM and
EnergyScale™ technologies
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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
Easily grow the system as your business grows
Consolidate UNIX and Linux workloads utilizing PowerVM Editions
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
Choose the operating system that best suits your application and business needs
Easily grow the system as your business grows
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
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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