IBM announced it is bringing its POWER6 microprocessor-based technology to small and medium-sized customers and delivering new virtualization offerings designed to help those customers consolidate server capacity, save energy and more effectively manage their IT costs.

IBM also introduced a new virtualization platform — PowerVM Express — specially made to enable customers to better manage their IT costs, drive maximum energy efficiency and increase resource utilization. PowerVM provides virtualization solutions for the broadest range of operating systems in the industry, including AIX — IBM’s UNIX operating system, Linux, and i5/OS for System i™ customers.