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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its latest SAP performance result on a POWER6-based server, along with details of a new study that demonstrates how IBM Power Systems — with virtualization technology, reliability, availability and energy efficiency features — can help clients save up to 33 percent on operating costs in an SAP(R) solution-based environment.

The IBM POWER6-based Power 550 server recently achieved an industry leading 8-core result (4 processors / 8 cores (4 dual-core processor chips) / 16 threads) on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, using the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode). (1) The results of the SAP benchmark showed that the Power 550 can handle 3,752 users, eclipsing both the 8-core and the users-per-core results of all other vendors, including HP, Sun, Fujitsu and Hitachi (1), all using Intel’s chips.

The IBM result showcases the performance of SAP applications and DB2 V 9.5 database software running on the AIX 6.1 operating system in a Power 550 two-tier environment.

It’s always interesting to read performance results that the different vendors announce, in this case it’s SAP on POWER-6 based servers. They remain valuable for benchmarking platforms when looking at the different processor or platforms, but do remember that the performance is only as good as the server, the network and storage underpinning it. It’s the big picture we need to look at, individually cpu, memory and disk might be very important, but the solution is put powered by a set of infrastructures and traditionally separated by layers, the client pc, the browser, the network connection and simple things like the client Java version, all of which can affect your end user experience.

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