Exactly 30 years ago, in 1981, IBM released the world’s first PC, to become the world’s first and widely accepted, said the personal computer era.

In 1998, IBM made its own blueprint for industry-standard servers, and in 2001 launched the first generation of IBM X architecture, not only gives the PC server, a new enterprise-class features, but also meets the industry standard enterprise server reliability, scalability and demanding requirements of manageability. Since then, IBM X Architecture will be updated once every two years the frequency and definition of the IBM certification leading technology and market development.

The latest generation of IBM X Architecture published in 2010, is the X-family, fifth generation of products (IBM eX5), the system for the IBM System x platform offers breakthrough memory expansion capability, not only significantly enhance the performance of System x servers, and it was first used in the BladeCenter blade server, server market once again changed the pattern of re-definition of the IBM System x server performance standards.

IBM System x servers with the performance, security and applications such as significantly improved its share of the overall server market is also growing. As of 2010, the overall server market in the world series ,000-152 share has reached 62%. According to Testinside experts predict that by 2014, the Chinese server market will be fully synchronized with global reach.

Currently, worldwide, more than 70% of the cloud environment is selected IBM System x certification , And more and more customers are beginning to consider the implementation of IBM System x platform, virtualization, and IBM servers occupy 75% more high-performance computing market, this series of figures show that the IBM System x platform is more and more business users of all ages, more and more bears are critical applications.