IBM United States Hardware Announcement 110-226
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reduce clients' operating costs and improve operational efficiency and business
performance.
As part of the IBM family of proven solutions that balance innovation, experience,
and energy for our clients' business prosperity, the System x3250 M3 server has
been enhanced to more effectively help clients address and resolve issues around
business continuity, IT security and optimization, and infrastructure management
and growth.
Economically designed to help clients stretch their IT dollar further by cutting costs
and going green with a leadership combination of energy-efficiency, noise reduction,
and space optimization, the System x3250 M3 server does more with less, offering:
• A budget-friendly entry price, small form factor, and reduced power consumption
• Reliability features and optional full remote management capabilities
• Flexibility to meet a wide range of general or dedicated infrastructure needs
At the same time, the System x3250 M3 offers clients simplicity and value
integration in an easy-to-manage solution, with up-to-date industry-standard
technologies that deliver the speed, agility, and flexibility essential to conducting
today's online business, at no risk now or in the company's future.
Available with high-performance, 64-bit processors, the System x3250 M3 server
can optimize investment decisions around managing and reducing business
complexity, increasing competitiveness, and improving the speed and efficiency of:
• General-purpose and specialized applications
• Infrastructure workloads
• Appliance solutions
Target markets include small, medium, and large businesses, including Internet and
Application Service Providers (OEMs) with constrained data center environments,
that are concerned about:
• Lowering total cost of ownership through the power, space, and cooling
characteristics
• Efficiently running infrastructure applications like firewall, security, disaster
recovery, name server, authentication, credit card processing, email, domain
controller, and more
• Leveraging their consolidated IT expertise by extending senior staff's
technical knowledge to remote systems via long-distance and remote systems
management
Delivering performance and protection at the lowest price point, as well as remote
monitoring and alerting capabilities that provide strong systems management, the
System x3250 M3 solution offers:
• Latest Intel Pentium and Core i3 processors (up to 3.06 GHz/8 MB/1333 MHz) for
excellent 64-bit operation.
• With EM64T 64-bit extensions, the ability to run Intel-compatible software in
either 32-bit or 64-bit extension mode. These new extensions provide increased
productivity, performance, and reliability for applications that can take advantage
of 64-bit extensions by enabling them to address more memory and up to 1333
MHz FSB, which speeds up information access within the system.
• Simple-swap HDDs that offer easy serviceability without removing the system
from the rack.
• Integrated hardware RAID-0 or RAID-1 without using a slot.
• Rack-optimized, 1U form factor with the ability to support four 2.5-inch SAS
HDDs.
• Optional upgrade to the Hardware Key for remote presence, often even when the
server is powered down.
