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IBM LinuxONE Emperor

IBM LinuxONE Emperor

IBM LinuxONE Emperor

Product catalog summary
Overview: The IBM LinuxONE Emperor is a high-performance server system designed to support Linux environments with efficiency, security, and scalability. It is tailored to handle the demands of modern IT infrastructures, including mobile clients and large data volumes, within a secure cloud-ready environment.
Key Features:
  • Open and Flexible: Supports familiar tools and applications, offering virtually limitless scalability.
  • Simple and Efficient: Reduces complexity and costs with fewer servers and unparalleled utilization and speed.
  • Trusted Security: Embedded security features ensure continuous operation and data protection.
Scalability and Performance: The Emperor system can be configured with up to 141 cores and supports up to 8,000 virtual Linux servers. It offers significant cost savings compared to x86 and public cloud environments, with a 32% lower total cost of ownership over three years compared to x86 clouds.
Security Features: Includes a dedicated cryptographic coprocessor (CPACF) and the Crypto Express5S for secure-key operations, providing robust encryption capabilities ideal for mobile and smartcard applications.
Enterprise Qualities: Offers high availability and disaster recovery through IBM GDPS Virtual Appliance and IBM Spectrum Scale, ensuring data access and system resilience even during failures.
Technical Specifications:
  • Models: Range from L30 to LE1, with varying core and memory configurations.
  • Cryptography: Crypto Express5S with 2-16 features.
  • Connectivity: FICON Express and OSA-Express ports for disk and network connectivity.
  • Supported Linux Distributions: Red Hat, SUSE, and Canonical.
  • Hypervisors: IBM z/VM and KVM.
Why IBM? IBM offers comprehensive expertise in systems, software, and services, helping optimize Linux environments for business growth while maintaining security and cost efficiency.
Additional Information: For more details, visit IBM's website or contact an IBM representative. IBM Global Financing provides flexible payment options for acquiring technology solutions.
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IBM Systems Data Sheet IBM LinuxONE Emperor Highlights ●● ● ● OPEN: Choose the tools and applications you know and love FLEXIBLE: Meet demand with virtually limitless scale SIMPLE: Fewer servers, less complexity, lower cost EFFICIENT: Get unparalleled utilization and speed TRUSTED: Embedded security and designed to never stop Linux has been the world’s fastest growing server operating system for a number of years and is now a major player in the global IT market, driving a multitude of new solutions. To be competitive in the market, the Linux infrastructure has to be efficient, secure, adaptive, and integrated. It must be designed to handle the explosive growth of mobile clients, be able to leverage vast amounts of data, and provide deep realtime insight at the point of impact to facilitate better informed decision making. And it must be deployable within a secure and resilient cloud ready environment. The IBM® LinuxONE™ Emperor system offers the necessary capabilities and processing power to be that Linux infrastructure. It can protect sensitive transactions to minimize business risk and client exposure, while providing the performance needed to help deliver on service level agreements. Emperor ca

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IBM Systems Data Sheet Scalability and Performance The LinuxONE Emperor allows for a simple Linux infrastructure approach. It is available with up to 141 configurable cores using the world’s fastest commercial processor running at 5.0 GHz, for impressive performance and massive scaling. It can support up to 8,000 virtual Linux servers on a single footprint. That means that the virtualization capabilities in a single Emperor system can result in a less complex Linux infrastructure with fewer components, less management, less space requirements, and less software costs than x86 servers. For compared...

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IBM Systems Data Sheet Resiliency analytics for LinuxONE is designed to offer near real time diagnostics to help identifying potential problems in the Linux environment. It is an analytics solution executed in firmware, which intelligently examines message logs for potential inconsistencies or anomalies. With this capability organizations can address IT problems quickly, minimize availability lapses and intervene in IT problems before they become severe. Emperor provides privacy for transactions and sensitive data by employing a dedicated cryptographic coprocessor, the CP Assist for Cryptographic...

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IBM Systems Data Sheet IBM LinuxONE Emperor at a glance Emperor Models Disk Connectivity FICON Express16S / FICON Express8S High Speed ‘Virtual’ LANS HiperSockets Supported Linux distributors

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IBM Systems Data Sheet Supported Hypervisors Why IBM? IBM understands your goals to drive top line growth and to enhance customer experience and loyalty. We understand your desire to use smart, efficient and robust technology solutions to achieve this. IBM provides expertise in systems, software, services and financing, that can help you optimize your Linux environments for the constant flow of opportunities and challenges. Emperor helps you address the velocity of your business while helping to keep users and data secure and budgets in check.

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For more information To learn more about the IBM LinuxONE Emperor, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following website: ibm.com/systems/linuxone/enterprise-linux-systems/ emperor.html Additionally, IBM Global Financing provides numerous payment options to help you acquire the technology you need to grow your business. We provide full lifecycle management of IT products and services, from acquisition to disposition. For more information, visit: ibm.com/financing 1 Performance comparison based on IBM Internal tests comparing IBM LinuxONE Emperor cloud...

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