Project Big Green Linux

With the current global economic financial challenges, reduction is on everyone's mind. Reducing ongoing costs, reducing overhead, reducing energy consumption, reducing redundant and inefficient processes - the list goes on.

Project Big Green Linux is about turning reductions into real savings, without sacrificing flexibility, capacity, or the ability to respond to abrupt changes in your business environment. By combing best-of-breed virtualization technologies such as z/VM, PowerVM, Xen, and VMWare with our extensive background in consolidation and management, IBM can offer Linux solutions that have been proven to reduce costs.

In fact, a recent survey conducted by IDC (PDF, 160KB) revealed that customers running Linux on Power and Linux on System z achieved, on average, a 6.3 month payback period, with an ROI approaching 500% at the end of three years.

IBM is a leader in virtualization solutions for Linux, and has helped many customers save significant amounts of money by enabling them to virtualize, consolidate, and effectively manage their datacenters with Linux and IBM Systems and Software.

How do you get started?
Look at the workloads within your enterprise, and consolidate onto virtualized Linux solutions. Linux is certified and well supported on all IBM Systems, enabling you to more effectively choose an architecture based upon how it addresses your business needs, not by which operating system is supported.

In addition, solutions from IBM Software such as Tivoli Active Energy Manager can help manage systems more intelligently, maintaining a focus upon effective management throughout the datacenter lifecycle.

With financing options available through IBM Global Finance, can you afford not to consider Linux virtualization and consolidation?

Learn more about Linux solutions on IBM Systems:

• Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Business-Critical Workloads.
• Linux on the Desktop: Lessons from Mainstream Business Adoption.
• Linux on IBM System x / Bladecenter (x86/x64 processors)
• Linux on IBM System x iDataplex (x86/x64 processors)
• Linux on IBM BladeCenter (x86/x64, Power, Cell/B.E. Processors)
• Linux on IBM BlueGene supercomputers (POWER processors)

Learn more about Linux solutions with IBM Software:

• Linux and Tivoli Active Energy Manager

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