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IBM Systems and Technology

Power 520 Express deskside and rack-mount servers

For a complete integrated business system, the Power 520
Express allows the small or mid-sized company seeking simplic-
ity to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while
becoming more responsive to their customers, improving their
productivity and keeping their data secure. The Power 520
Express—i Edition integrates features to simplify your IT envi-
ronment and delivers a complete, cost-effective business system
that can grow with a business.

The IBM Power 520 Express is a 1-, 2- or 4-core entry server
utilizing 4.2 GHz or 4.7 GHz POWER6 processors designed
to deliver outstanding business value to smaller and mid-sized
businesses while meeting the needs of many mission-critical
applications. It offers outstanding price/performance in a 
commercial IT environment; a breadth of available applications;
superior reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteris-
tics architected to avoid, detect and recover from errors to
achieve near-continuous availability; EnergyScale™ technolo-
gies and software tools to measure energy use and direct poli-
cies toward the energy-efficient operation of the server; and
outstanding PowerVM virtualization to help achieve increased
system utilization. This highly flexible, available and easy to
manage server enables companies to spend more time running
their business utilizing a proven solution from thousands of
ISVs that support the AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems.

Summary of Contents for 8203-E4A

Page 1: ...s more work to be processed with less operational disruption for branch office and in store applications As a small database server the Power 520 Express offers the outstanding performance of the IBM POWER6 processor the world s fastest chip This leadership performance makes it possible for applications to run faster and be more responsive which can result in significant advantages for your busines...

Page 2: ...to deliver outstanding business value to smaller and mid sized businesses while meeting the needs of many mission critical applications It offers outstanding price performance in a commercial IT environment a breadth of available applications superior reliability availability serviceability RAS characteris tics architected to avoid detect and recover from errors to achieve near continuous availabi...

Page 3: ...roved performance with POWER6 technology also enables clients to get more processing power with fewer processors resulting in lower per core software licensing costs Application availability The IBM Power 520 Express is designed with capabilities to deliver outstanding application availability and allow more work to be processed with less operational disruption The Power 520 Express capabilities i...

Page 4: ...nt server that integrates a trusted combination of relational database security web services networking and stor age management capabilities The preintegration and testing of the IBM i operating system is a key factor in enabling compa nies to deploy applications faster and maintain them with fewer staff Running applications based on this IBM i operating system has helped companies over many years...

Page 5: ...ared Dedicated Capacity PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility IBM Chipkill ECC bit steering memory and cache Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Processor Recovery Service processor with fault monitoring Hot plug disk bays Hot plug PCI slots Hot plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans Dynamic Processor Deallocation Extended error handling on PCI X slots AIX V5 3 or lat...

Page 6: ...e Semiconductor Inc Other company product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others IBM hardware products are manufactured from new parts or new and used parts In some cases the hardware product may not be new and may have been previously installed Regardless our warranty terms apply Photographs show engineering and design models Changes may be incorporated in production model...

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