Power Systems Cloud solutions

Highlights:

• Improve performance and scalability by optimising IT assets based on workload to ensure the ideal elasticity of your cloud.
• Enterprise quality of service (QOS) virtualisation provides the best foundation for your mission-critical applications running in the cloud.
• Automated management, provisioning and optimisation of your physical and virtual cloud resources ensure optimal utilisation to meet changing business demands.
• Self-service portal and standardised service catalog leverage all the features of your cloud infrastructure to enable automated delivery of services without IT intervention.
• Metering and billing features provide the capabilities to improve cost transparency and offer more flexible pricing schemes for your cloud services.

The unprecedented interest and projected IT spend on cloud computing is coming from all types of organisations, businesses and governments that are seeking to transform the way they deliver IT services and improve workload optimisation so they can quickly respond to changing business demands. Cloud computing can significantly reduce IT costs and complexities while improving asset utilisation, workload optimisation and service delivery.

Today’s IT Infrastructures face challenges on many levels:

• Composed of silos that lead to disconnected business and IT infrastructures
• Contain static islands of computing, which result in inefficiencies and underutilised assets
• Struggle with rapid data growth, regulatory compliance, integrity and security
• Continuous rise of IT administration costs

As a result of these challenges, organisations are demanding an IT infrastructure and service delivery model that enables growth and innovation. An effective cloud computing environment built with IBM Power Systems™ cloud solutions helps organisations transform their data centers to meet these challenges:

• Delivering integrated visibility, control, and automation across all business and IT assets
• Is highly optimised and scales IT up and down in line with business needs
• Addresses the information challenge by delivering flexible and secure access to data and mitigating risks
• Utilises flexible delivery models, automation and virtualisation to greatly simplify IT service delivery and provide enterprise QOS capabilities including higher application availability, improved performance, more scalability and enterprise-class security.

Power Systems cloud solutions enable customers to build an effective cloud computing environment, enabling organisations to reduce IT costs, improve service delivery and enable business innovation.