Chapter 1. General Description - IBM Power 720 Overview

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General description
Chapter 1.
The IBM Power 720 (8202-E4D) and IBM Power 740 (8205-E6D) servers use the latest
POWER7+ processor technology that delivers unprecedented performance, scalability,
reliability, and manageability for demanding commercial workloads. The Power 720 and
Power 740 servers provide enhancements that can be beneficial to customers who run
applications that drive high I/O or memory requirements.
Performance, availability, and flexibility of the Power 720 server can enable companies to
spend more time running their business by using a proven solution from thousands of ISVs
that support the AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The Power 720 server is a
high-performance, energy-efficient, reliable, and secure infrastructure and application server
in a dense form factor. As a high-performance infrastructure or application server, the
Power 720 contains innovative workload-optimizing technologies that maximize performance
based on client computing needs, and Intelligent Energy features that help maximize
performance and optimize energy efficiency, resulting in one of the most cost-efficient
solutions for UNIX, IBM i, and Linux deployments.
As a distributed application server, the IBM Power 720 offers capabilities to deliver
leading-edge application availability and enable more work to be processed with less
operational disruption for branch-office and in-store applications. As a consolidation server,
PowerVM Editions provide the flexibility to use leading-edge AIX, IBM i, Linux applications
and offer comprehensive virtualization technologies to aggregate and manage resources,
while helping to simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure and deliver one of the most
cost-efficient solutions for UNIX, IBM i, and Linux deployments.
The Power 740 offers the performance, capacity, and configuration flexibility to meet the most
demanding growth requirements, and combined with industrial-strength PowerVM
virtualization for AIX, IBM i, and Linux, it can fully use the capability of the system. These
capabilities can satisfy even the most demanding processing environments and can deliver
business advantages and higher client satisfaction.
The Power 740 is designed with innovative workload-optimizing and energy management
technologies to help clients get the most out of their systems (that is, running applications
rapidly and energy efficiently to conserve energy and reduce infrastructure costs). It is fueled
by outstanding performance of the POWER7+ processor, so applications can run faster with
fewer processors, resulting in lower per-core software licensing costs.
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