Infrastructure simplification = Reduced complexity, lower TCO and a resilient environment
High on the list of critical business requirements is the need for IT infrastructures to better support business integration and transformation efforts. At the heart of these integration and transformation efforts is often the simplification and
streamlining of core and strategic business processes.
Viewed in the broadest sense, Infrastructure simplification represents an optimized view and evolutionary approach—or the next logical step beyond basic server consolidation—for companies on the road to becoming true on demand businesses.
From an IT perspective, it can serve as a roadmap for building one's On Demand Operating Environment. Ojectives include leveraging existing assets, enabling business process integration, reducing costs, increasing efficiency and moving to better synchronize the design of IT infrastructures with the design of the business processes—which, by the way, should be modular with ultimate flexibility built to accommodate change and based on open and industry standards where possible.
So if your IT infrastructure has become a complex set of disparate, server specific, "silo'ed" applications operating across an endless sea of servers (i.e., transaction processing servers, database servers, tiered application servers, data gateways, human resource servers, accounting servers, manufacturing servers, engineering servers, e-mail servers, Web servers, etc.), then you owe it to yourself to ask serious questions like: "Where will you deploy the next application?" or "Where will you physically put the next server?" or "Is there a simpler way to manage this?"
Learn how companies all over the world, across a wide range of industries, are realizing the value of zSeries infrastructure simplification solutions:
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Generali USA raises productivity by standardizing on IBM platform (US)
Generali USA looked to improve decision making and lower IT costs by streamlining multiplatform information management infrastructure. Under former ownership, the company had long relied on the IBM mainframe, and of all the database platforms it researched, the company identified DB2 on the mainframe as the most reliable offering available. |
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Sapiens (UK) solution streamlines Liverpool Victoria's policy services (US)
Using an IBM eServer zSeries platform and IBM DB2 Universal Database Universal Developer's Edition and other IBM tools, Sapiens (UK) created a Web-enabled, open-standards-based data repository to consolidate Liverpool Victoria's customer account, claims and policy administration information. |
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SDDC moves toward a flexible, easy-to-manage infrastructure (US)
SDDC's IT infrastructure had become increasingly distributed and complex over time. The move to autonomic computing had to support SDDC's strategic need to meet changing requirements. To begin implementing its plan, SDDC upgraded and secured its core systems in an IBM eServer zSeries mainframe enabled by an IBM z/OS operating system. |
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