The iDataPlex solution offers enterprises a unique approach to and different value proposition for taking advantage of emerging market opportunities' including Web 2.0, but it is built on decades of IBM innovation. In the iDataPlex design, IBM leverages a variety of existing rack and BladeCenter technologies - along with offerings from key partners - but also fundamentally re-imagined how they might be assembled, manufactured and deployed. The result is a highly familiar yet essentially new Internet-scale datacenter solution that is powerful and flexible enough to address a host of next generation business challenges.

IBM's System x iDataPlex, which was designed after extensive consultation with existing Internet scale datacenter owners, offers enterprises a new approach to and different value proposition for pursuing Web 2.0 capabilities and market opportunities.