By Timothy Prickett Morgan
It’s Dynamic Infrastructure blitz week at Big Blue. In a kicking out new entry and midrange rack servers and funky new blade server based on its Power6+ chips and a bunch of storage enhancements and Fibre Channel over Ethernet and other networking products rebadged from Brocade, IBM previewed two upcoming x64 tower servers and kicked out some pre-configured supercomputer clusters to round out its x64 portfolio.
Back on March 30, when Intel launched the quad-core “Nehalem EP” Xeon 5500 chips to much fanfare, IBM launched two rack servers (the System x3550 M2 and the x3650 M2), the HS22 blade server, and a hybrid storage-server blade in its custom iDataPlex computing environment. All of the machines were two-socket servers, since the Nehalem EP was designed for two-socket servers.
