IBM X-Architecture Blueprint 2009

The X-Architecture blueprint takes a comprehensive approach to providing a dynamic infrastructure—using innovative hardware, software and services—to solve customer challenges today, and it embraces an evolving design approach to address tomorrow's challenges.This paper describes how IBM systems designed with the X-Architecture blueprint run faster—yet cooler—use less energy, and are more reliable, easier to manage and better for virtualization than competitive servers, and offer a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).