Super Servers

Things changed for IBM in the Unix server space since they began launching a

series of eServers starting October 2001. The whole ideas was not just to meet

the growing demand for e-business, but to gain a top slot in the server market

with breakthrough technology.

According to Gartner Dataquest, IBM’s share of worldwide server revenue

jumped four points from year 2000 to 29 percent in 2001. A recent study

conducted by IDC also placed IBM with a marketshare of 30 percent in the Unix

servers space in Asia Pacific, leaving behind Sun Microsystem with a 27.6

percent marketshare in the Unix server space.

IBM eServer: Riding on reliability, technological superiority and pricing
Strengths
	Reliability and scalability with  mainframe-class
	Incorporation of Power4 Chip, AIX 5L and project eLiza makes it uniqueÂ
	IBM eServers are priced much lower than competing  products

TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERIORITY



According to the company, IBM servers are far superior to all competing

products in the market because of its reliability and scalability with

mainframe-class. Some of the new introductions like the Power4 Chip, AIX 5L and

Project eLiza, have made these servers a class apart.

The eServers portfolio starts from the xSeries erstwhile Netfinity servers

– a range of low-end Intel based servers to i-Series (AS/400e) – integrated

business servers, p-Series (RS6000) – the UNIX based server range and the

mainframes (S390) – zSeries. The prefixes used in the names talk about its

uniqueness. The ‘i’ stands for integrated business application, ‘p’

stands for price/performance and ‘z’ stands for zero downtime.

"IBM eServers have the clear advantage of providing multiple options

across all platforms to suit exact requirements for any business," says M

Ganesh, VP-Enterprise Systems Group, IBM India.

Today, IBM proudly boasts that it has servers for the entire spectrum of

industry and businesses, be it large mission-critical businesses or small and

medium businesses. Powered by breakthroughs such as microprocessors with copper

wiring and silicon-on-insulator technology, IBM servers come with several

industry benchmarks.  

GROWING PRESENCE



One important factor in the growth of IBM eServer is the price. The company

has managed to bring down the cost for all its eServers considerably. Besides,

it has also offered finance and leasing facilities to its customers through IBM

Global Financing.

With IBM’s WebSphere software gaining a 26 percent market share, again in

Asia Pac region, IBM has proved itself that it has competitive e-business

capabilities, products and services. Its focus on to establish a much wider

partner network to help large and small enterprises plan, build and implement

the e-business infrastructure they need to survive in the new Internet economy,

is already yielding results. And eServers played an important role in adding to

the growth that IBM was experiencing.