IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Hardware Announcement ZG09-0272
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Product positioning
The all-new System x3250 M2 server is positioned as the entry 1U single-socket
server of the System x rack-optimized product line - a solution designed to help
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 x3250 M2 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 x3250 M2 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 x3250 M2 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 M2 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,
who 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, e-mail, 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