IBM hopes to change that with hardware like the p5-520 and 550.
"We're providing midmarket customers something they've never had before, power and flexibility at their fingertips that allow them to grow their businesses without significantly taxing their small IT staffs and budgets," said Freund.
Prices for the p5-520 start at $3,993, while the p5-550 begins at $7,050. Not surprisingly, typical configurations run higher. On IBM's Web site, for instance, a 1.5GHz one-way p5-520 with 1GB of memory and a pair of 36.4GB drives runs $4,971. A two-way p5-520 with 2GB of RAM, meanwhile, prices out at $7,392.
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