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Server and storage consolidation from IBM
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The goal
Ensure a foundation for growth
When servers don’t scale, you have to add more of them, and as they accumulate, they become harder to manage. Server and storage consolidation solutions from IBM can optimize your existing IT infrastructure to eliminate unnecessary costs and improve the performance and availability of your systems.

The advantage
Proven experience
IBM is the world’s largest and most experienced company in helping government agencies makes better use of IT resources.

IBM strengths and successes:
  • We have 1,800 dedicated government technology specialists and 150,000 service professionals worldwide.
  • The average server farm requires about 10,000 square feet of floor space, compared with only 400 square feet for a single IBM eServerzSeries™ 900.
  • We developed and patented the IBM ALIGN Methodology to address your server consolidation needs.

The benefits
Standardize platforms to increase reliability
Adding new e-government applications is more costly and less reliable on unconsolidated servers. Server and storage consolidation solutions from IBM are designed to help your organization:
  • Unify systems and standardize platforms across your organization.
  • Optimize current IT infrastructure prior to deploying new, power-hungry e-business applications such as:
    • Supply chain management
    • Citizen relationship management
    • Web-enablement of your agency services
    • Other advanced e-government applications
Common server consolidation solutions apply to:
  • E-mail servers
  • File and print servers
  • Database servers
  • System management servers
  • Web servers
Your solution may include one or more of four server consolidation categories:
  • Centralize
  • Physical consolidation
  • Data integration
  • Application integration

The approach
Increase capacity for growth: a case study
One state government agency’s storage requirements were increasing at a rate that was difficult to manage with limited staff. IBM installed an IBM Enterprise Storage Server™ (ESS).

The ESS solution provided:
  • Interoperability with the agency’s systems.
  • Scalability and increased capacity for growing requirements.
Server and storage consolidation solutions from IBM can help you manage growth in your organization.

The financial advantage
Make better use of corporate resources
Server and storage consolidation solutions from IBM can help you make better use of scarce dollars and improve your return on investment by:
  • Curbing costs of maintenance and support—for every dollar spent on buying servers, another US$4 on average is spent on maintaining that server.
  • Optimizing infrastructure to put your organization on the competitive edge of e-government.
  • Reducing number of licenses, systems and storage costs.



Services
IBM Managed Hosting