Why Power Systems?
From the smallest to the largest, the Power System family offers powerful options for every installation to make users significantly more productive, improve system management, and connect to high speed networks.

IBM Power Systems includes a variety of convenient office applications such as calendar management, e-mail, word processing, and Query. These allow you to generate screen displays and reports from online RentalMan data or generate a file to use with familiar P.C. tools such as Lotus and Excel.

Your marketing department can create customized reports using current or historical data to identify trends by item, customer, product class, sales territory, and much more. This crucial data is easily accessible and available on demand. You can also download important product data into a word processing program such as Word or Word Perfect to personalize your company's marketing promotions.

An optional feature, LAN Server/400, speeds up the file-serving performance system wide by sharply cutting the time needed to access PC-oriented files. Powerful, easy-to-use OS/400 capabilities make it possible for a single administrator to manage local area networks (LANS) from a central site, while automated backup facilities help you reduce costs and boost productivity even more.

  Installation - Simple.
Power's computing systems are easy to install because the Power Blade server is shipped with the operating system already loaded and ready to go. An extensive set of menus enables users to perform any Power systems function without learning "computerese" commands.

  A System that Keeps on Running
A solid infrastructure of support comes with the Power Blade server to make sure your equipment and software work together in balance, day after day. Electronic Customer Support (ECS) is a direct electronic link to the IBM support network, and various seminars and classes are available to ensure that everyone in your organization can use the System i5 at its full potential.

  The IBM Guarantee
Backing up the quality and reliability built into the Power Blade server are all the services and support for which IBM is known. There are services available for planning, data center design, maintenance, migration, and business recovery, all provided by teams with technical skills and experience that inspire confidence. Services and support from IBM are designed to free you to do what you do best: run your business.

  About IBM Power Blade Servers
IBM is the world's leading server company, and IBM Power System is the world's most popular multi-user commercial business computer, with 700,000 systems shipped to customers in more than 150 countries. It is a powerful, flexible transaction server capable of managing and connecting a company's core business applications to suppliers, distributors and customers over the Web. The Power 520 is offered in a wide range of versatile choices. It provides a choice of 1-way or 2-way IBM POWER5 processors starting at 500CPW (Commercial Processing Workload) and ranging up to 6000 CPW; up to 32GB of memory; and 39TB of disk storage. The base configuration offers the ability to add features and capabilities as your business needs change. The Power 520 makes an ideal entry-level system for customers that run traditional OS/400® and i5/OS applications and want the flexibility to add new features and applications if necessary. For more information on the IBM Power Blade servers, please visit IBM's Power Systems website.