Get the presses and stop anything else that you’re doing right now. Get ready to drop your jaws until they meet your feet. IBM recently launched the world’s fastest micro-processor ever built. {Burst the Crackers and Beat the drum rolls}… the dual-core Power6 comes with a whopping frequency of 4.7 GHz. Intel is watching, and can’t do much.

According to the press release that we got the information from, the dual-core Power6 micro-processor is twice as fast as the yesteryear generation Power5 at 4.7 GHz, although it uses nearly just as much amount of electricity to run and cool itself. Also, the cache size of Power6, which is nearly 4 times that of Power5, stands at a total of 8 Mega bytes per processor.

This mean micro-processor is developed using state of the art 65 nanometer process technology of IBM. Apart from having the BIG 4.7 GHz frequency, it’s the first UNIX based micro-processor that can calculate decimal floating point arithmetic in any computer hardware ever built. The company says, “Until now, calculations involving decimal numbers with floating decimal points were done using software. The built-in decimal floating point capability gives tremendous advantage to enterprises running complex tax, financial and ERP programs”.

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There is a lot of competition in the market when it comes to dealing with servers. Nearly all hardware companies claim their servers to be the best and amidst this competition the user is always benefited with the price factor. IBM is by far the most preferred name and it puts forward a demonstrable track record when it comes to marinating servers for businesses of all sizes. These servers are built in employing the latest technologies incorporating the futuristic needs of any business.

It should be understood that any IT organization needs to reduce its costs incurred towards technology equipments and call for an improved resource allocation going in sync with the demands of the market. As a result a lot of used servers are taken into account these days. Leading companies such as Vibrant have started selling used p series and used x series of servers. Both these versions of servers provide the required performance and thorough efficiency in the present day’s computing world with the UNIX and LINUX based operating environments.

The IBM x servers are known for its speed and less power consumption making it the perfect choice for virtual environment. IBM possesses about forty years of mainframe experience and associating with a brand like this can never turn out to be a wrong move, be it the used servers or the new out-of-the-shelf servers. It ensures reliability with an unmatched performance that will keep you surviving in this fast paced industry.