A virtualized environment can help you save money, improve productivity and simplify system resource allocation. IBM System x™ (US) servers and BladeCenter® (US) systems built on IBM X-Architecture technology® deliver adaptive performance, simple modularity, efficient power and cooling and proactive management capabilities — making them ideal platforms for virtualization.
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Help increase server and storage utilization |
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Enable a highly available and resilient infrastructure |
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Help reduce costs and complexity |
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Increase flexibility and reliability |
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IBM Director (US) |
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Help maximize system availability and lower IT costs with IBM Director, an integrated, easy-to-use suite of tools for managing networks of homogeneous or heterogeneous hardware.
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IBM Virtualization Manager (US) |
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Simplify your virtualization management. Manage physical and virtual resources from one interface with IBM Virtualization Manager integrated with VMware VirtualCenter.
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IBM Usage and Accounting Manager (US) |
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Align IT with business goals by understanding who consumes which resources. Usage and Accounting Manager is designed to monitor resource usage of applications, servers and other IT resources enabling customers to invoice based on usage.
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IBM System Storage Virtualization (US) |
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Transform the economics of your enterprise storage by simplifying your storage infrastructure, helping protect your data and efficiently managing all types of information.
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Increase server utilization, improve data security and more efficiently manage Linux®-based IT systems with IBM System x servers or BladeCenter systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux with built-in Xen virtualization software.
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Server consolidation solutions (US) |
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Simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure by consolidating workloads onto Industry-standard System x or BladeCenter servers, which help reduce cost and complexity and provide a more rational, stable foundation for growth.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (US) |
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Improve system flexibility and reliability in the data center at a low total cost of ownership with IBM System x or BladeCenter servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with built-in Xen virtualization software.
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Virtual client solution from IBM (US) |
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Enhance system security and availability, improve administrative efficiency and help end the on-going desktop replacement lifecycle by running desktop functions on an IBM System x or BladeCenter server in the data center.
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Increase server utilization with the power of virtual machines. Easy to provision and manage, IBM System x and BladeCenter servers running VMware software can also help you to lower your total cost of server ownership.
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AISO.net generates big cost savings by harnessing the power of data center virtualization. (US) — As designed by Sirius, the new solution's key attributes included a marked consolidation in hardware—with nearly 100 of its standalone servers replaced by four System x servers—as well as a major improvement in the infrastructure's overall flexibility and resiliency.
Progressive Enterprises buys into virtualization with SAP and IBM (US) — Progressive Enterprises is making use of virtualization to improve the efficiency of its Intel-based systems. As its existing Windows servers come to the end of their useful lives, rather than replacing them like-for-like Progressive is consolidating them to virtual servers running under VMware on IBM System x and BladeCenter hardware.
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