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Outstanding value in a high-performance single-socket tower server
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• Toolless chassis
Server Comparison Chart
The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM System x tower servers, including comparisons of the uses for
which each server is best suited:
Theme Key Workloads
Scalability
Floating Point
Performance
Memory
Throughput
Integer
Performance
I/O and Storage
Density
High Availability
Systems
Management
Security
Distributed
Deployment
x3100
M3/M4
x3200
M3
x3400
M3
x3500
M3
Cluster / HPC
3 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 3 3
Modeling & Simulation
2 1 1 1 3 1 3 2 3 3
High Performance DB
2 2 1 1 1 3 2 2 3 3
Business Intelligence
2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 3
Search
3 1 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 2
Content
2 2 2 2 2 1 3 3 2 2
Communities
1 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 2
Commerce
2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
Collaboration
2 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 2
ERP/SCM
1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2




CRM
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 3





Best
Hosted Client
1 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2




Point of Sale
3 3 3 2 1 3 1 1 1 1




Branch Office
2 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 1





Better
Virtualization
1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3




Business Continuity
2 3 3 3 1 2 2 1 2 2




Database
2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3





Good
Email/Collaboration
2 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2




Security
2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 3




Web Serving
3 2 2 2 3 1 2 1 3 3




File & Print
2 3 2 3 1 2 2 1 3 3




1
2
3
Important
Nice to Have
Can do without
TowersRequirements
Infrastructure
Applications
Web 2.0 /
Web 3D
HPC
Business
Applications