Power System E8800 pages

IBM Systems
Data Sheet

IBM Power System E880
POWER8 enterprise-class server that’s been designed
to support the most mission-critical applications

Highlights
Delivers twice the performance per core
versus the competition1, with enterprise
scalability for the most demanding data
centric applications

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Manages fluctuating business demands
with dynamic, on-demand private cloud
capacity

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Minimizes risk with secure delivery of data
and services on a proven, reliable platform

Enables open innovation and choice for
AIX®, IBM i and Linux

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Data is emerging as the world’s newest natural resource and the basis for
a new kind of competitive advantage. Yet, for many organizations, the
increasing volume, variety and influx of data is straining their traditional
IT infrastructures that were never designed to handle the magnitude of
complexity in these new workloads. To keep up with the fast pace of
today’s business climate, it is essential for organizations to capitalize on
next-generation infrastructures that integrates analytics-optimized
systems and technologies to dynamically meet the demands of a data
driven world.
The IBM® Power® E880 enterprise server is designed to provide the
highest levels of reliability, availability, flexibility and performance in
order to provide clients with a world-class enterprise private and hybrid
cloud infrastructure. Through enterprise-class security, efficient built-in
virtualization that drives industry-leading workload density, and dynamic
resource allocation and management, the Power E880 server consistently
delivers the highest levels of service across hundreds of virtual workloads
on a single system.

Industry-leading IBM POWER8 performance
Built with innovation that puts data to work, IBM Power Systems™
provides the foundation for organizations to bring insight to the point
of impact quickly. The Power E880 is a large-scale, symmetric multiprocessing system that delivers its exceptional performance using enterprise
IBM POWER8™ processors, each a single chip module (SCM) with a
choice of either eight or twelve cores running at greater than 4 GHz