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IBM Systems
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IBM Power System E850
The most agile 4-socket system in the marketplace,
optimized for performance, reliability and expansion

Highlights
Designed for data and analytics, delivers
secure, reliable performance in a compact,
4-socket system

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Can flexibly scale to rapidly respond to
changing business needs

Businesses today are demanding faster insights that analyze more data in
new ways. They need to implement applications in days versus months,
and they need to achieve all these goals while reducing IT costs. This is
creating new demands on IT infrastructures, requiring new levels of performance and the flexibility to respond to new business opportunities, all
at an affordable price.

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Can reduce IT costs through application
consolidation, higher availability and virtualization to yield over 70 percent utilization

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The IBM® Power® System E850 server offers a unique blend of
enterprise-class capabilities in a space-efficient, 4-socket system with
excellent price performance. With up to 48 IBM POWER8™ processor
cores, advanced IBM PowerVM® virtualization that can yield over
70 percent system utilization and Capacity on Demand (CoD), no other
4-socket system in the industry delivers this combination of performance,
efficiency and business agility. These capabilities make the Power E850
server an ideal platform for medium-size businesses and as a departmental
server or data center building block for large enterprises.

Designed for the demands of big data and
analytics
Businesses are amassing a wealth of data and IBM Power Systems™, built
with innovation to support today’s data demands, can store it, secure it
and, most important, extract actionable insight from it. Power Systems
are designed for big data. From operational business intelligence and data
warehouses to predictive analytics and cognitive IBM Watson™ solutions, Power servers are optimized for the compute intensive performance
demands of database and analytics applications and can flexibly scale to
support the demands of rapidly growing data. The open, data-centric
design of Power Systems combines computing power, big memory,