IBM Takes Top Spot in New Performance Study of UNIX Servers.Business Editors SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 28, 1999 RS/6000 S80 Helps Secure Industry Leadership in D.H. Brown Report IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) announced today that its UNIX servers have received the highest commercial ranking in an innovative composite benchmark-testing study of server performance. The independent study, conducted by D.H. Brown Associates, ranked IBM's high-end UNIX servers number one, ahead of HP and Sun, which placed second and third respectively. The new RS/6000 S80 server with copper microprocessing technology was singled out as helping IBM gain performance leadership. Other IBM UNIX systems contributing to the win include the RS/6000 SP and S70. This D.H Brown report is a one-of-its-kind study that compares server performance by using a weighted average of several industry-standard benchmark results that measure general commercial applicability, online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. , decision support, and enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. )(a). The result is an overall numerical ranking, or a "Composite Performance Metric" (CPM), designed to help gauge all-around server performance. "The IBM RS/6000 achieved the number one position in our commercial rankings by maintaining balance with solid scores in application areas important to IT and business managers," said Richard Partridge, senior research analyst for D.H. Brown. "IBM's lead shows the versatility of the RS/6000 family, and for users who wish to deploy a variety of applications on one platform, versatility is an important attribute." "Our customers depend on RS/6000 systems for many types of commercial applications," said David Gelardi, director of benchmarking for IBM RS/6000. "The D.H. Brown study offers IT managers a fresh and valuable new perspective on server performance characteristics that clearly position the RS/6000 as a strategic server platform." According to D.H. Brown, the composite study was developed to help IT managers focus benchmark data into an overall ranking that could provide better information to formulate purchasing strategies and in turn deliver benefits to their businesses. The full report can be viewed at http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/consult/dhbrown/perf.pdf The following are registered trademarks or trademarks IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both: IBM, RS/6000, SP. UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). is a registered trademark in the United States and/or other countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Other company, product and service names, may be trademarks or service marks of others. (a) CPM employs a weighted average of the following UNIX-focused benchmarks: TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. , SAP SD 3 Tier, SPECweb96, TPC-C Parallel DB, SPECsfs97.v2, SPECsfs.v3 SAP ATO 2 tier, BaanIVc, BaanERP, SPECint95 TPC-H TPC-H Transaction Processing Council Ad-hoc/decision support benchmark (computer performance) 100GB, TPC-H 300GB, SPECint_reate95, SPECjvm98, TPC-R TPC-R Transaction Processing Performance Council - Decision Support Benchmark 100GB and NotesBench mail. |
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