IBM Gooses Power Systems Storage and Networking
October 24, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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As we discussed in last week’s issue, on October 12 IBM rolled out some new entry and enterprise Power7-based systems with double the maximum memory capacity and with support for PCI-Express 2.0 peripheral cards, doubling up the bandwidth per slow. But there were a bunch of other enhancements to storage and networking adapters, too, and these are useful for all Power Systems shops on reasonably recent machinery. The new SAS disk and flash drive controllers are the most interesting new devices that IBM put out in the October announcements. With solid state drives now coming into vogue to boost |
