In the average midsize company, 80% of the IT budget is spent on operations and maintenance. As IT managers struggle to reduce costs, they may not be aware that their current infrastructure is not running as efficiently as possible. Updated servers with increased performance, efficiency and reliability can help companies save resources and energy. IBM and its Business Partners deliver solutions like IBM System x® and BladeCenter® offerings, featuring the new, faster and more energy-efficient Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. These servers can help cut back on energy consumption and provide more efficient system management, letting midsize companies reduce cost, manage risk and improve service.

IBM BladeCenter and System x are designed for a broad set of client needs from large enterprises to general businesses and high performance computing. IBM's line of x86 systems are backed by hundreds of patents and 100 number one performance benchmarks over the last 10 years. During that time, IBM invested a half a billion dollars in X-Architecture innovations. The result has been a very strong position, particularly in scalable systems.

IBM POWER™ processor-based systems are the industry leader by a wide margin in systems performance. Today, in addition to leading performance, Power Systems also deliver a broader scope of value—performance and availability. Increasingly, this value is achieved through systems software that uses the advanced capabilities of POWER7.