IBM has announced an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using  the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle.

 Organizations across all industries are demanding systems that address the data intensive workload demands of today's applications and services with better performance and lower cost.

 Per-core performance is important for clients in industries such as energy, mobile communications and financial services, who run database application workloads that use per-core pricing when determining total solution cost.  Fewer cores for the same performance can translate to significant and direct savings in licensing and ongoing annual software maintenance costs.

"Smarter healthcare providers, cities, retailers, smarter energy grids and financial systems, all require support for ever greater data volumes and transaction throughput," said Nitin Singhal, Country Manager – Information Management - Software Group – IBM India/South Asia.  "The results of this benchmark demonstrate how IBM innovations combine to deliver unprecedented performance and cost efficiency for data intensive applications.  Not only can you scale to massive data volumes and transaction throughput, but you can do so economically in an energy efficient way."