IBM and Linux for Business-Critical Workloads

Business-critical is business as usual for Linux and IBM

Linux has long been recognized as a lower-cost alternative to proprietary operating systems, largely because the extensive support of a wide variety of platforms by multiple independent vendors offers clients an unprecedented amount of choice. With choice comes competition, and from competition comes value.

In today's economic environment, many customers are recognizing the value of choosing Linux as a foundation for their business critical workloads. With over 500 IBM Software products running on Linux and support for all IBM Systems, IBM has the portfolio, the resources, and the experience to help you migrate and run your business-critical workloads to Linux today.

Why Linux for business-critical workloads?

If your business depends upon the reliability, availability, security, and flexibility of a workload, it's business-critical. IBM has long had a reputation as a provider of business-critical solutions – enterprise-grade middleware and services, from blades to the mainframe – and by choosing Linux for business-critical workloads our clients can leverage the flexibility and choice of the world's most popular open source operating system.

Why IBM?

Customers have long relied upon IBM's expertise in managing their business-critical workloads. With a long history of scale-up and scale-out servers, enterprise grade software, and over a decade of investment in Linux and open source, IBM is a trusted partner and source of innovation for the workloads that are most critical to our clients' business.
With over 600 full time developers in the Linux Technology Center and thousands of skilled resources in IBM Global Services, IBM has the expertise and experience to help our clients leverage the cost savings and flexibility of Linux on IBM Systems and with IBM Software.