IBM marks X

IBM Corporation has announced the launching of its System x scaleable servers with the X3 technology (a.k.a. Enterprise X-Architecture technology) and revamped software. Estimates from the company state that more than 1,000 virtual machines are deployed on the IBM X3 architecture-based x86 systems by IBM daily. IBM data also suggests that over fifty percent of IBM’s current x86 expect to deploy virtualization technology before year 2007. New for CRM, database, ERP and virtualization applications systems for the System x high-performance computing segment will be released in May 2006.