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Partners wowed by IBM's Power 700 series large and midrange servers. 

IBM Business Partners were briefed on the new lineup of POWER7 servers today, and reaction from the field was: "Awesome." 

In the midrange and large server market, "this blows away the competition," said one Business Partner. The new servers, which are identified as the Power 700 series, are extremely energy efficient and can save companies up to 90 percent of the energy used by older Power 5 models in certain comparisons, according to the company. Several of the servers even carry the ENERGY STAR label. 

ENERGY STAR is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency helping people save money and protect the environment through energy-efficient products and practices. 

ENERGY STAR was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants caused by the inefficient use of energy; and make it easy for consumers and businesses to identify and purchase energy-efficient products that offer savings on energy bills without sacrificing performance, features, and comfort. Products can earn the label by meeting the energy efficiency requirements set forth in ENERGY STAR product specifications, established by the EPA.

More information on the new POWER7server lineup will be released as it becomes available.

Chris Smith

Chris Smith was the Senior News Editor at MC Press Online from 2007 to 2012 and was responsible for the news content on the company's Web site. Chris has been writing about the IBM midrange industry since 1992 when he signed on with Duke Communications as West Coast Editor of News 3X/400. With a bachelor's from the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in English and minored in Journalism, and a master's in Journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Chris later studied computer programming and AS/400 operations at Long Beach City College. An award-winning writer with two Maggie Awards, four business books, and a collection of poetry to his credit, Chris began his newspaper career as a reporter in northern California, later worked as night city editor for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and went on to edit a national cable television trade magazine. He was Communications Manager for McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Long Beach, Calif., before it merged with Boeing, and oversaw implementation of the company's first IBM desktop publishing system there. An editor for MC Press Online since 2007, Chris has authored some 300 articles on a broad range of topics surrounding the IBM midrange platform that have appeared in the company's eight industry-leading newsletters. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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