Announced in 2000, it combined the various IBM server brands (AS/400, Netfinity, RS/6000, S/390) under one brand.
[1] The various sub-brands were at the same time rebranded from: The RS/6000 SP supercomputer line was replaced by Blue Gene platform.
In 2005, IBM announced a new brand, IBM System, as an umbrella for all IBM server and storage brands.
The rebranding was completed in 2006 when the IBM xSeries became the IBM System x (later the Lenovo System x).
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