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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0354430.htm

BM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is bringing its POWER6(TM) microprocessor-based technology to small and medium-sized customers and delivering new virtualization offerings designed to help those customers consolidate server capacity, save energy and more effectively manage their IT costs.

A “virtualized” approach to computing is designed to allow corporations around the world to reduce energy consumption by as much as 80 percent(1), better manage system growth, and achieve total cost of ownership reductions of up to 72 percent(2).

Virtualization technology allows multiple server functions to run on fewer servers. For example, one server could run many operating systems and simultaneously host several business applications. Deploying these virtualization capabilities can help lower IT costs and business risks, increase efficiency and flexibility, simplify deployment and management, enhance overall business resilience and enable new forms of innovation.

Addressing these requirements, IBM introduced today a new virtualization platform — PowerVM(TM) Express — specially made to enable customers to better manage their IT costs, drive maximum energy efficiency and increase resource utilization. PowerVM provides virtualization solutions for the broadest range of operating systems in the industry, including AIX® — IBM’s UNIX® operating system, Linux®, and i5/OS® for System i(TM) customers.

Very cool, more choice for the consumer in terms of system and processor combinations has to be a good thing.

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